aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Why Europeans smoke more
Stephen Dubner points to Harvard economists Ed Glaeser and David Cutler on Why Europeans Smoke More Than Americans:
“Almost one-half of the smoking difference,” they write, “appears to be the result of differences in beliefs about the health effects of smoking; Europeans are generally less likely to think that cigarette smoking is harmful.” This is an intriguing argument, to say the least.
It makes these warning labels (from exchange students arriving from Spain) seem all the more reasonable.
