Add to ORKGThis paper reports the first test of how exogenous health shocks impact people's longevity expectations. The analysis exploits the panel structure of the Health and Retirement Study and tests whether smokers, former smokers and those who never smoked react differently to serious, smoking related health shocks. The results support the conclusion that smokers have a different risk perception process. Smokers were only sensitive to their own smoking related illnesses while former smokers and those who never smoked react to a wider range of health related signals. These findings, along with related research on how smokers react to information messages, suggest that generalized messages about the hazards of smoking may be less effective than inf...
Although fatal consequences of smoking are often highlighted in health communications, the question ...
Researchers disagree as to whether cigarette warnings elicit psychological reactance in smokers. We ...
Cigarette package health warnings can be an important and low-cost means of communicating the health...
This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through ex...
Severe health shocks provide new information about one's personal health and have been shown to infl...
This article considers dynamic models of smoking under uncertainty, wherein individuals learn about ...
People generally underestimate their risk to come down with a life-threatening disease when comparin...
This article aims to assess how the risk perceptions of smokers affect survival expectations and sub...
This study investigates the effect of serious health events including new diagnoses of heart attacks...
Despite all the information about the risks, many people still smoke. Several studies investigated r...
This study reports consumer reactions to the gra-phic health warnings selected by the Food and Drug ...
Objectives Cigarette pack warnings are widely used internationally for reducing smoking behaviour. C...
Threat appeal campaigns have been widely used to induce people to change their bad smoking habits by...
Background: While the majority of the health messages on cigarette packages contain threatening heal...
Research suggests that smoking may compound the risk of serious health problems to smokers who contr...
Although fatal consequences of smoking are often highlighted in health communications, the question ...
Researchers disagree as to whether cigarette warnings elicit psychological reactance in smokers. We ...
Cigarette package health warnings can be an important and low-cost means of communicating the health...
This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through ex...
Severe health shocks provide new information about one's personal health and have been shown to infl...
This article considers dynamic models of smoking under uncertainty, wherein individuals learn about ...
People generally underestimate their risk to come down with a life-threatening disease when comparin...
This article aims to assess how the risk perceptions of smokers affect survival expectations and sub...
This study investigates the effect of serious health events including new diagnoses of heart attacks...
Despite all the information about the risks, many people still smoke. Several studies investigated r...
This study reports consumer reactions to the gra-phic health warnings selected by the Food and Drug ...
Objectives Cigarette pack warnings are widely used internationally for reducing smoking behaviour. C...
Threat appeal campaigns have been widely used to induce people to change their bad smoking habits by...
Background: While the majority of the health messages on cigarette packages contain threatening heal...
Research suggests that smoking may compound the risk of serious health problems to smokers who contr...
Although fatal consequences of smoking are often highlighted in health communications, the question ...
Researchers disagree as to whether cigarette warnings elicit psychological reactance in smokers. We ...
Cigarette package health warnings can be an important and low-cost means of communicating the health...