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The smoking project as evaluated by smokers and non‐smokers
Author(s) -
Sainsbury Peter
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb07739.x
Subject(s) - health benefits , social benefits , psychology , medicine , environmental health , gerontology , tailings , metallurgy , traditional medicine , materials science
The purpose of one of the projects, whose social benefits we invited people to rate, was to develop a treatment to deter smokers from smoking. It was therfore of interest to compare the assessments made by smokers and by non‐smokers. The findings indicate that it would seem that smokers are more concerned than non‐smokers about the discomfort their habits inflict on others, and that they are also more aware that a research project that led to fewer people smoking would bring benefits to their fellows. Howerver, smokers and non‐smokers agreed very closely on the order in which they rank the potential social rewards of research into methods of stopping smoking: They both placed its potential benefits to physical health first and the benefits to educational programs and non‐material benefits second or third. Non‐smokers tended to place more value on OTHER KNOWLEDGE and NON‐MATERIAL benefits, whereas smokers more often rated tangible and practical benefits highly, and this difference between them is evident for all projects. The other very manifest trend is for smokers to rate most items more highly than did non‐smokers.