Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The risks of active and passive smoking / Jonathan M. Samet
  • A profile of smokers and smoking / Patrick Jamieson and Daniel Romer. Perceptions of risk by adolescents and adults. What do young people think they know about the risks of smoking? / Patrick Jamieson and Daniel Romer
  • The role of perceived risk in starting and stopping smoking / Daniel Romer and Patrick Jamieson
  • Smokers' recognition of their vulnerability to harm / Neil D. Weinstein
  • Cigarette smokers : rational actors or rational fools? / Paul Slovic. Media influence on smoking. Advertising, smoker imagery, and the diffusion of smoking behavior / Daniel Romer and Patrick Jamieson.
  • Addiction. The nature of nicotine addiction / Neal L. Benowitz
  • A visceral account of addiction / George Loewenstein
  • The Catch-22 of smoking and quitting / Daniel Romer, Patrick Jamieson, and R. Kirkland Ahern. Legal and policy perspectives. The joint failure of economic theory and legal regulation / Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar
  • Tobacco and public health policy : a youth-centered approach / Richard J. Bonnie.