Smoking Status and Public Responses to Ambiguous Scientific Risk Evidence

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 250-270

  Viscusi, W Kip ^a   Magat, Wesley A ^b   Huber, Joel ^b  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033424431     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1061142     Document Type: Article

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