The effects of beliefs about the health consequences of cigarette smoking on smoking onset

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作者
Krosnick, Jon A. [1 ]
Chang, LinChiat
Sherman, Steven J.
Chassin, Laurie
Presson, Clark
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Commun Polit Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[2] Opin Res Corp, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
[3] Indiana Univ, Dept Psychol, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[4] Arizona State Univ, Dept Psychol, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
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10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00281.x
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G2 [信息与知识传播];
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05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
Nearly all Americans now recognize that smoking causes lung cancer and other serious diseases; however, cigarette smoking has not yet been eradicated in this country. This might be taken as evidence that beliefs about the health risks of smoking do not influence smoking onset or quitting. In this paper, we report new evidence that perceiving smoking to entail greater health risks reduces the likelihood that a young person will begin to smoke. This evidence suggests that public health campaigns should continue to focus on this theme to bolster resistance to smoking onset among young people.
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