deter v. 制止;阻止
What you typically find is that people with high IQs are less likely to smoke , more likely to be active and to have a good diet, says White, noting that they are also likely to have high socioeconomic status. People in this group tend to make healthy choices, based both on health information and their own experience.
socioeconomic status 社会经济地位;社会经济状况
This group isnt likely to see occasional drug use as particularly harmful, White says, both because there is little data to suggest great risk of harm from such use and because evidence of harm is rare among their peers. With smoking, the evidence is overwhelming, says White, whereas when you look at things like cannabis use, since they are more likely to associate with people who are similar to them, they are likely to see that smoking cannabis relatively infrequently doesnt have huge impact.
whereas conj. (用以比较或对比两个事实)但是,然而,尽管
In contrast, drug users with less education and wealth are more likely to be exposed to negative consequences of drug use. This is due in part to the fact that money itself can buy protection against the types of criminal involvement and disease that can affect poor drug users.
be exposed to 曝光;面临;遭受
The likely mechanism is openness to experience, White concludes, and, I think, its also this idea of having an educated view of risk as well.
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