Constructing ‘Fashionable’ Youth Identities: Australian Young Women Cigarette Smokers

Smoker identity and its potential role in young adults’ smoking behavior: A meta-ethnography.

“… I think when you see those pictures in New Weekly, and there’s, like, Elle Macpherson, and she’s got a cigarette in her hand, I think it’s pretty obvious what people think, because they look up to them as iconic, then they think, well they can do it, I can do it. ( Gilbert, 2007 , p. 7) …”

“…Smoking tended to be seen as an identity trademark that people could use to distinguish themselves from others and to express their individuality, other identity aspects (e.g., identity as a young person) and personal attributes (e.g., being a fun-loving person who prioritizes pleasure over health awareness; Gilbert, 2007 ; Lennon, Gallois, Owen, & McDermott, 2005 ; MacFadyen, Amos, Hastings, & Parkes, 2003 ; Moffat & Johnson, 2001 ; Rooke, Amos, Highet, & Hargreaves, 2013 ; Scheffels, 2008 , 2009 ; Scheffels & Schou, 2007 ; Wiltshire, Amos, Haw, & McNeill, 2005 ). I play the guitar and when I go with my friends from the band to these music bars, smoking kind of becomes part of that rock n’ roll image.…”

¿Es necesaria una intervención diferencial de género en la prevención universal y selectiva del consumo de drogas en adolescentes?

“…También se ha mencionado cierto consumo oculto o privado en mayor medida en las chicas 15 tal y como se señalaba en algunos discursos femeninos. Por otra parte, fumar y beber poseen una buena imagen social entre sus grupos de iguales 16,17 , no es todavía para los adolescentes una conducta desviada o estigmatizada como se ha planteado en ciertos contextos de adultos 18 . Por el contrario, se configura como un rito de paso hacia la vida adulta 19 y ejerce cierta atracción por ser prohibido.…”

In their own voices: Iranian adolescent girls' views about smoking

“…Although smoking is stigmatized and considered immoral in most societies, particularly in Iran, studies have shown that some girls associate this act with masculine attributes such as "roughness" and "risk-taking" and have also addressed this distressing hypothesis that masculinity and strength have increased girls' attraction to smoking. [30] Although society's assessment of smoking in women as elegant and attractive can encourage them further on, [31] even in a society that sees smoking of women as obscene and against the customs; some women are still encouraged to smoke. [30] A lot has been said and written about the affectionate upbringing atmosphere of families; however, a noteworthy point some of our participants mentioned was the disagreement between the domestic atmosphere on the one hand, and the cultural atmosphere of society on the other, meaning that when the adolescent girls compared the hard restrictions imposed on them by their parents against the tacit freedom available in the society for both boys and girls, the result was nothing but confusion, conflict and, ultimately, rebellion.…”