A column by Anastasiia Antonova (AMSE), Luis Huxel (University Of Tuebingen), Mykhailo Matvieiev (AMSE) and Gernot Müller (University Of Tübingen) published in VoxEU.
Why do some people keep smoking, even when a loved one has become seriously ill because of tobacco? A study based on 200,000 people in France shows that these “family shocks” have very little impact on behaviour. The findings raise questions about the effectiveness of prevention policies.