On March 7, 1962 the Royal College of Physicians published a report entitled Smoking and Health that made the causal link between smoking and lung cancer clear and explicit. Using a historical data set that contains information on smoking from 1958 to 1965, I find a decrease in smoking for those with more schooling after the report's publication. I do not find a difference in the effect for those with greater access to information (measured by TV ownership or newspaper readership). This suggests the education health gradient is more likely due to processing of information rather than access to information.

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吸烟、信息和教育：皇家内科医学院和新公共卫生运动

1962 年 3 月 7 日，英国皇家内科医学院发表了一份题为《吸烟与健康》的报告，明确指出了吸烟与肺癌之间的因果关系。通过使用包含 1958 年至 1965 年吸烟信息的历史数据集，我发现报告发布后，受教育程度较高的人的吸烟率有所下降。对于那些更容易获得信息的人（通过电视拥有量或报纸读者来衡量），我没有发现效果有什么不同。这表明教育健康梯度更有可能是由于信息处理而不是信息获取造成的。