The social image of smoking among young people in Scotland

Allbutt, Helen; Amos, Amanda; Cunningham‐Burley, Sarah

doi:10.1093/her/10.4.443

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“…Some recent qualitative studies have added a new dimension to this debate, focusing on young people's perspectives on their health behaviours and rooting these within descriptions of their everyday lives. Findings from these studies show that this 'gateway' effect may also operate in reverse, with cannabis introducing some young people to tobacco and subsequently to cigarette smoking (Albutt et al, 1995;Bell et al, 1998;Amos et al, 2004). These studies offer new insights into how young smokers today view cannabis use and how this relates to their own smoking behaviour.…”

Section: Cannabis Tobacco and Respiratory Healthmentioning

confidence: 93%

The role of cannabis in supporting young people's cigarette smoking: a qualitative exploration

Highet

2004

Health Education Research

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This paper reports findings from a qualitative study which explores the role of cannabis in young people's lives during their early teenage years. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between cannabis and tobacco-related beliefs and behaviour. Fifty-nine young people of both sexes, aged 13-15, from different socioeconomic backgrounds, and with a wide range of cigarette and cannabis use experience, took part in the study. All were recruited from youth club settings and most were interviewed in self-selected friendship pairs. The paper argues that, while many young people appear to hold predominantly negative views about cigarettes, particularly in relation to their potential to foster dependence, cannabis is often viewed as relatively benign. In spite of these beliefs, for some 'cannabis-oriented' young people, their cannabis use appears to support and reinforce their smoking habit. The paper concludes that a coordinated approach to the planning and delivery of services which addresses young people's health risk behaviours is required. Smoking cessation and drugs education practitioners need to break with tradition, and find ways of working more closely together.

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Section: Cannabis Tobacco and Respiratory Healthmentioning

confidence: 93%

The role of cannabis in supporting young people's cigarette smoking: a qualitative exploration

Highet

2004

Health Education Research

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“…Only a very limited number of projects within the field of health promotion explore smoking, eating, drinking alcohol and exercise within a broader view of everyday life. The lack of this empirical direction has been acknowledged by a number of health advocates (Allbutt et al, 1995;Moore & Kindness, 1998;Shucksmith & Hendry, 1998;Wright, 1999;Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, 2002;McKie et al, 2003). One may distinguish these studies since they use certain techniques in order to direct research participants to talk about these four behaviours within the context of everyday life.…”

Section: Focusing On People's Accounts Of Health-related Behavioursmentioning

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“…First, in most cases young people are asked to participate in a research project that deals with issues relating to young people's lifestyles and interests (e.g. Allbutt et al, 1995;Shucksmith & Hendry, 1998;Michell & Amos, 1997). Pavis et al (1998) located these behaviours in a concrete social setting during the interview procedure.…”

Section: Focusing On People's Accounts Of Health-related Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…McKie et al (2003) concentrated on agendas of everyday life related to smoking. Allbutt et al (1995) constructed open interviews about their subjects' own lives and experiences and let smoking emerge as a topic suggested by the interviewee rather than by the interviewer. Similarly Devine et al (1999) allowed participants to talk broadly about food choices in general without constraining them into specific health-related themes in order to understand how ethnicity was interpreted, expressed and enacted through food choices.…”

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Health logic and health-related behaviours

Ioannou

2005

Critical Public Health

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In this paper, the author develops the notion of health logic, which prescribes 'judgemental' and 'cause-effect' logic to the way that smoking, eating, drinking alcohol and exercise as health-related behaviours are approached within the field of health promotion. The problem, which is raised through the concept of health logic, is concerned with the utilization of health-enhancing or damaging classifications for 'everyday' issues (e.g. spending time with peers, eating out) relevant to smoking, eating, drinking alcohol and exercise. While such classifications can be rationalized under the field of health promotion, which aims at the promotion of healthy choices, they can be relatively misguiding. The emphasis on just a binary concept of health promotion conceals the understanding of these behaviours in people's everyday lives. The health logic critique is established first through a discussion of three main health promotion concepts: 'lifestyle', 'choice' and 'empowerment'. Second, the health logic is highlighted through the empirical tendency within the field of health promotion that favours separating aspects of the everyday life of individuals into positive and negative influences. This paper suggests a different viewpoint of health-related behaviours by centring on people's everyday lives and avoiding the binary divisions created by the health logic, such as healthy/unhealthy, or the role of an enhancing or obstructing social context. Such a strongly value-laden approach seems unlikely to tell us very much about how people make sense of health-related behaviours within the context of their everyday lives.

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“…Importantly, our practices of consumption relate not only to our view of self, but to the image that we wish to portray, as Warde suggests, 'people define themselves through the messages they transmit to others through the goods and practices they possess and display ' (1994, p. 878). The symbolic value of smoking generated within a consumption-oriented society such as 'tough', 'sexy' and 'cool' has been associated with the development of smoking habits among young people (Allbutt et al 1995, Gray et al 1996, Amos et al 1998, Porcellato et al 1999, Pulmridge et al 2002, Amos and Bostock 2007. Nevertheless, how young people understand smoking as a symbolic activity for their own ends in their day-to-day experiences has not been thoroughly explored (Rugkasa et al 2001a,b, Denscombe 2001a.…”

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Young Cypriots’ perspectives of the symbolic values of smoking

Ioannou

Pike

2010

Critical Public Health

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This paper reports the findings of a study that explores the perspectives of 25 young Cypriots regarding the symbolic values of smoking with respect to their everyday lived experiences. This study was motivated by recognising the high levels of smoking prevalence among adolescents in Cyprus and the absence of published research 'recording' their own versions of reality about smoking. Data for the study were generated from one-to-one qualitative interviews which encouraged the participants to articulate the symbolic value of smoking in their day-to-day experiences. The analysis focuses first, on the content of the embedded symbolic values of smoking (e.g. the quality of being 'cool') and second on the role of these values (e.g. used in projecting an image) in their everyday lives. A central finding is that the symbolic values of smoking amount to a vital resource, through which young people play with their self-and lifestyle images, communicate and interact with peers. This article highlights the enhanced utility of understanding smoking in ways which depart from monodirectional and judgemental approaches within health promotion efforts and concentrate on spoken voices and lived experiences. It strongly suggests the need to provide young people with opportunities to become aware of and critical about the symbolic value of smoking.

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The social image of smoking among young people in Scotland

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The role of cannabis in supporting young people's cigarette smoking: a qualitative exploration

The role of cannabis in supporting young people's cigarette smoking: a qualitative exploration

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Young Cypriots’ perspectives of the symbolic values of smoking

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