Attitudes toward smoking and smoking rate: implications for smoking discouragement.
Attitudes toward smoking were measured among nonsmokers and five levels of smokers (light to heavy). Of 13 attitude items, a relationship between attitudes and number of cigarettes smoked was found to exist in five, three of which dealt with smoking as a health risk. The results suggest that the more cigarettes a person smokes, the greater the likelihood of denial of the health hazards associated with smoking.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003073:Cognitive Dissonance; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking