Do they know what they are doing? Risk perceptions and smoking behaviour among Swedish teenagers
(2004) In Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 28(3). p.261-286- Abstract
- Cross-sectional survey data on Swedish adolescents aged 12 - 18 was used to analyse perceived risks of smoking-related lung cancer, the determinants of these risk perceptions, and how these perceptions related to smoking behaviour. Three major conclusions were drawn: ( 1) that both smokers and non-smokers overestimated the risks of lung cancer, ( 2) that these risk perceptions fell substantially with age, but nevertheless implied risk overestimation, and ( 3) that individuals with higher perceived risks were less likely to be smokers but that risk beliefs had no effect on the number of cigarettes smoked.
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- author
- Lundborg, Petter LU and Lindgren, Björn LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2004
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- young people, risk perception, smoking
- in
- Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
- volume
- 28
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 261 - 286
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- wos:000221120600004
- scopus:3543037666
- ISSN
- 1573-0476
- DOI
- 10.1023/B:RISK.0000026098.84109.62
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Department of Economics (012008000), Lund University Centre for Health Economics (LUCHE) (016630120)
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