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Smoking Risks in Spain: Part II - Perceptions of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Externalities


Joan Rovira


Autonomous University of Barcelona - Department of Economics

W. Kip Viscusi


Vanderbilt University - Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Vanderbilt University - Department of Economics; Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management; Vanderbilt University - Strategy and Business Economics

Fernando Antoñanzas


Univeristy of La Rioja - Department of Economy and Business

Joan Costa-Font


London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Warren Hart


Soikos

Irineu De Carvalho Filho


International Monetary Fund (IMF)
November 2000

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 305

Abstract:     
Previous studies of smoking risk beliefs have focused almost exclusively on risks to the smoker. Using an original set of survey data from Spain, we examine the public's perceived risks from exposures to environmental tobacco smoke. The risk categories considered included lung cancer, heart disease, life expectancy loss, and low birth weight for children of smoking mothers. Risk beliefs were quite high, often dwarfing scientific estimates of the risk. The results are consistent with overestimation of risks from highly publicized, low probability events.

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JEL Classification: D81, I10, K2

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Date posted: January 10, 2001  

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Rovira, Joan, Viscusi, W. Kip, Antoñanzas, Fernando, Costa-Font, Joan, Hart, Warren and De Carvalho Filho, Irineu, Smoking Risks in Spain: Part II - Perceptions of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Externalities (November 2000). Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 305. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=255890 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.255890

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Joan Rovira (Contact Author)
Autonomous University of Barcelona - Department of Economics ( email )
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Barcelona, 08034
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W. Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt University - Law School ( email )
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Nashville, TN 37203-1181
United States
615-343-7715 (Phone)
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HOME PAGE: http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/viscusi.htm
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Vanderbilt University - Department of Economics
Box 1819 Station B
Nashville, TN 37235
United States
(615) 343-7715 (Phone)
(615) 343-5953 (Fax)
HOME PAGE: http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/viscusi.htm
Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
401 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203
United States
(615) 343-7715 (Phone)
(615) 343-5953 (Fax)
HOME PAGE: http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/viscusi.htm
Vanderbilt University - Strategy and Business Economics ( email )
Nashville, TN 37203
United States

Fernando Antoñanzas Villar
Univeristy of La Rioja - Department of Economy and Business ( email )
C/ Ciguena, 60
26004 Logrono
Spain
34-941-299387 (Phone)
34-941-299393 (Fax)
Joan Costa-Font
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ( email )
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
HOME PAGE: http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/j.costa-font@lse.ac.uk/
Warren Hart
Soikos ( email )
Center for Studies in Health Economics
and Social Policy
Barcelona
Spain
Irineu De Carvalho Filho
International Monetary Fund (IMF) ( email )
700 19th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20431
United States
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