Smoking : risk, perception & policy
From the publisher: This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of risk associated with smoking. The authors agree that young smokers give little or no thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The survey data contradicts the model of informed, rational choice and underscores the need for aggressive policies to counter tobacco firms' marketing and promotional efforts and to restrict youth access to tobacco
Print Book, English, ©2001
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif., ©2001
xiii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780761923800, 9780761923817, 0761923802, 0761923810
45532400
Introduction. The risks of active and passive smoking / Jonathan M. Samet
A profile of smokers and smoking / Patrick Jamieson and Daniel Romer. Perceptions of risk by adolescents and adults. What do young people think they know about the risks of smoking? / Patrick Jamieson and Daniel Romer
The role of perceived risk in starting and stopping smoking / Daniel Romer and Patrick Jamieson
Smokers' recognition of their vulnerability to harm / Neil D. Weinstein
Cigarette smokers : rational actors or rational fools? / Paul Slovic. Media influence on smoking. Advertising, smoker imagery, and the diffusion of smoking behavior / Daniel Romer and Patrick Jamieson. Addiction. The nature of nicotine addiction / Neal L. Benowitz
A visceral account of addiction / George Loewenstein
The Catch-22 of smoking and quitting / Daniel Romer, Patrick Jamieson, and R. Kirkland Ahern. Legal and policy perspectives. The joint failure of economic theory and legal regulation / Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar
Tobacco and public health policy : a youth-centered approach / Richard J. Bonnie
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