Event Title
Do Adolescent Smokers Know the Risks?
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
6-3-1998 1:30 PM
End Date
6-3-1998 2:45 PM
Description
Professor Slovic challenges Professor Viscusi by suggesting that "risk" is a term with varying meanings and the potential for misinterpretation by study participants. He distinguishes between the probability and severity of a risk, and suggests that teens who know the probability of smoking causing cancer are not aware of the severity of the experience of cancer.
Related Paper
Paul Slovic, Do Adolescent Smokers Know the Risks?, 47 Duke Law Journal 1133-1141 (1998)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol47/iss6/4
Do Adolescent Smokers Know the Risks?
Duke Law School
Professor Slovic challenges Professor Viscusi by suggesting that "risk" is a term with varying meanings and the potential for misinterpretation by study participants. He distinguishes between the probability and severity of a risk, and suggests that teens who know the probability of smoking causing cancer are not aware of the severity of the experience of cancer.
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