Comment: The perils of qualitative smoking risk measures

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 267-271

  Viscusi, W Kip ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptional biases; Risk beliefs; Smoking risks

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044517891     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0771(200004/06)13:2<267::aid-bdm337>3.0.co;2-8     Document Type: Article

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