Perceptions of health risk and smoking decisions of young people

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 865-877

  Gerking, Shelby ^a,b,c   Khaddaria, Raman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Difficulty in quitting smoking; Immediacy of health effects; Perceived risk of lung cancer mortality

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84861981698     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1760     Document Type: Review

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