Smoking Puzzle

Information, Risk Perception, and Choice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

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 revise their risk perceptions only after experiencing a major health shock--such as a heart attack. But less serious symptoms, such as shortness of breath, do not cause changes in perceptions. Waiting for such a jolt to occur is imprudent. The authors show that well-crafted messages about how smoking affects quality of life can greatly affect current perceptions of smoking risks. If smokers are informed of long-term consequences of a disease, and if they are told that quitting can indeed come too late, they are able to evaluate the risks of smoking more accurately, and act accordingly.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-06-15
Mått:156 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674010390

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin
Missbruk inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Frank A. Sloan is J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics, Duke University. V. Kerry Smith is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University. Donald H. Taylor Jr. is Assistant Research Professor, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University.

Recensioner i media

This book makes an important contribution to tobacco policy by suggesting a new direction in information policy. In doing so, it skillfully navigates between those who claim that smokers rationally understand what they are doing—and in fact may overestimate the health risks they run—and those who claim excise taxes should be increased to keep smokers from harming themselves.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Linking Information, Risk Perception, and Choice: An Economic Approach 2. Cognition, Perception, and Behavior: Are "Bad Choices" Allowed with Rational Choice? 3. Government Policy and Advertising as Sources of Information for Smokers 4. Can Smokers Expect Personal Health Signals? An Evaluation of the Health Impact of Cigarette Smoking 5. Determinants of Risk Perception 6. Do Health Shocks Influence Smoking Behavior? Cessation and Relapse Patterns in Older Adults 7. Personalized Health Messages and the Perceived Risks of Smoking 8. Risk, Longevity Expectations, and Demand for Cigarettes 9. Conclusions and Policy Implications Notes References Index

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