Smoking, information sources, and risk perceptions - New results on Swedish data

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-240

  Lundborg, Petter ^a,b,c,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Risk perception; Risky behaviour; Smoking; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249723631     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-007-9010-0     Document Type: Article

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