What do people's estimates of smoking related risk mean?

Psychology and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 513-521

  Borland, Ron ^a,b  

^a Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Risk assessment; Risk perception; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031514838     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870449708406727     Document Type: Article

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