Smoking rationality to our future selves : an application of a discount rate onto the smoking addiction

• Main Author: Abdul Rahim Siti Zulaiqah
• Other Authors: Andrew T. Forcehimes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73549
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores the rationality to smoke cigarettes across different temporal parts of a person’s life as grounded on the harms and benefits of smoking. Smokers typically smoke cigarettes for the temporary pleasures at the expense of its future pain. However, this act of smoking can only be just...