The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice

by Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor Jr., V. Kerry Smith

Book Overview

How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion. The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about their longevity and future health if they quit later in life.

Older adults' decisions to quit smoking require personal experience with the serious health impacts associated with smoking. Smokers over fifty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674010396
• ISBN13: 9780674010390
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"