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  • Smoking: Making the Risky Decision

    Smoking by Viscusi, W. Kip;

    Making the Risky Decision

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 18 February 1993

    • ISBN 9780195074864
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages184 pages
    • Size 241x165x22 mm
    • Weight 450 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations line illustrations, tables
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    Long description:

    This is a book on smoking that uses rigorous empirical data to explore in detail the character of the tradeoffs that people make in choosing whether to smoke or not to smoke. It is, therefore, not strictly about the hazards of smoking but about how people's perceptions of the risk of smoking affects their smoking behaviour.

    Some of the interesting and potentially controversial conclusions include: 1) People overestimate the risk of lung cancer compared to the actual incidence of the disease; 2) if people had an accurate perception of the risk of lung cancer national smoking rates would rise by 8%; 3) excise taxes on cigarettes increase people's risk perceptions and decrease smoking rates; 4) people who smoke are more likely to accept work in hazardous professions, and require less extra compensation for hazardous work than non-smokers; 5) young people, who are making the decision whether to smoke have a higher perception of the risks of smoking than older people.

    `thought provoking book that will be of interest to researchers and policy makers concerned with smoking and public health'
    British Medical Journal

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