Electronic cigarette risk beliefs and usage after the vaping illness outbreak

W Viscusi

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, vol. 60, issue 3, No 3, 259-279

Abstract: Abstract New national survey evidence on electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) risk beliefs indicates that people substantially overestimate the health risks posed by e-cigarettes, both in absolute terms and relative to conventional cigarette risk beliefs. Perceptions of the lung cancer risks and total mortality risks of conventional cigarettes function as prior risk beliefs for e-cigarettes. People believe e-cigarettes are at least 60% as risky as conventional cigarettes. Whether respondents have seen reports of vaping-related illnesses has no significant effect on risk beliefs, but there has been a modest increase in the percentage who believe that e-cigarettes are riskier than cigarettes. Accurate e-cigarette beliefs would significantly increase whether people try, currently use, or exclusively use e-cigarettes. Whereas price and taste are the principal drivers of brand choice for conventional cigarettes, use of e-cigarettes is more closely linked to smoking cessation and concern with environmental tobacco smoke.

Keywords: Electronic cigarettes; E-cigarettes; Vaping; Cigarettes; Smoking; Lung cancer; Mortality; Bayesian; D80; I12; I18; K32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11166-020-09328-3

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