Tobacco Control, Stigma, and Public Health: Rethinking the Relations

Bayer, Ronald; Stuber, Jennifer

doi:10.2105/ajph.2005.071886

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“…[10][11][12][13][14] Tobacco-related stigma refers to the negative social meanings and stereotypes associated with tobacco use, usually smoking, identifying smoking as shameful. Smokers can come to be seen as "weakwilled", "outcasts" and "lepers", and abusers of public services.…”

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Tobacco Denormalization as a Public Health Strategy: Implications for Sexual and Gender Minorities

2015

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Although the population-level success of tobacco denormalization is widely accepted, it remains unclear whether these strategies alleviate health inequities for sexual and gender minorities. The high risk of smoking among sexual and gender minorities together with research that documents a relationship between stigma-related processes and smoking prevalence for these groups raises questions about whether tobacco-related stigma intensifies the disadvantages associated with the stigmas of other social identities. We have not adequately considered how tobacco-related stigma overlaps with other social identity stigmas. Given concerns about the intensification of inequality, this type of inquiry has important implications for understanding both the effectiveness and limitations of tobacco denormalization strategies for sexual and gender minorities and identifying those tobacco prevention, treatment, and public health policies that work to ameliorate health inequities.

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“…Tobacco scholars mobilized the industry for the goal of harm reduction-a goal in sociological science | www.sociologicalscience.com 179 April 2015 | Volume 2 direct opposition to the industry's stated policy but still within the realm of the industry's interests. Although the safer cigarette was never found, the search for it brought forth the concept of passive smoking, which had an immense effect on current perceptions of smoking (Brandt 1990;Bayer and Stuber 2006). This is how science is robust: neither Wynder nor the industry scientists at the TWG anticipated, believed in, or had interest in ETS.…”

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“…Evidence that tobacco smoke is an environmental hazard, first published in 1981, completely changed the terms of the debate (Brandt 2007:279-315;Bayer and Stuber 2006). Toying with a safer cigarette may help those who choose to risk themselves, but if they emit an environmental risk, cessation and control are in order.…”

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Robust Science: Passive Smoking and Scientific Collaboration with the Tobacco Industry in the 1970s

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2015

SocScience

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Abstract:The first lesson from the history of research on smoking hazards is that scientists should be wary of collaboration with interested industries. This lesson, which is influential in the literature on science-industry relationships, comes from a historiography focused on the carcinogenicity debate of the 1950s and 1960s and the passive smoking debate of the 1980s and 1990s. Few studies have examined research in the 1970s. This article fills this lacuna using novel bibliometrical methods augmented with a qualitative analysis of the associations between periods and literary camps, as expressed in scientific texts. The mixed-methods approach identifies the temporal dynamics of the literature on smoking hazards to reveal that the well-documented attempts of the tobacco industry to stall and hamper science had unanticipated consequences. Specifically, an industry-science collaboration to develop a less hazardous cigarette put scholars on the path to discovering the hazards of passive smoking. The analyses supply a narrative that has room for actors' complex interests and actions and demonstrates that such complexity may only be revealed in research whose outcomes are never known in advance.

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“…Credit must be given to many authors who continue to raise the question of denormalisationassociated stigma in tobacco control (Bayer, 2008a;Bayer & Feldman, 2012;Bayer & Stuber, 2006) and who have posited, 'Not can we, but should we?' (Bayer, 2008b, p. 463).…”

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Decolonising Research Methodologies in East Arnhem Land

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Abstract'Talking About Smoking in East Arnhem Land: Denormalisation, Stigmatisation and Leadership' was a research project that began in 2014 in East Arnhem Land, amongst the Yolŋu peoples. The study revealed a wealth of deeper meanings and beliefs about ŋarali' or tobacco within the context of Yolŋu tradition, history and culture. In this reflective piece, the primary author describes a personal journey of learning through observations and discussions with Yolŋu informants who shared their values, expectations and obligations associated with ŋarali', which over time, have become interwoven with Yolŋu ceremony. DedicationQualitative research was considered to be the most appropriate methodology to seek insight and understanding from Yolŋu individuals, family members, leaders and employees of health services about ŋarali' (tobacco). Yolŋu informants were interviewed in clinics, on verandas, under trees outside their homes, and in the home of the researcher, who together with two Cultural Mentors (CMs) sought to create spaces where Yolŋu informants were at ease, and felt comfortable to discuss the issue of smoking. In these places, they offered their perspectives on the cultural aspects of ŋarali' (tobacco) and the responsibilities associated with maintaining its traditions. The Cultural Mentors gave invaluable support, taking charge of recruitment, and facilitating meetings with informants, Elders and leaders prior to and during the study. In addition, they helped the author review the audio recordings from interviews before analysing, interpreting, translating and negotiating shared and attributed meanings of words and concepts. With their help, I gained an understanding of the history, and the rich culture and traditions of the Yolŋu peoples concerning ŋarali'. Buku-djulŋi! This article is dedicated to you both.

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Tobacco Control, Stigma, and Public Health: Rethinking the Relations

Cited by 198 publications

References 11 publications

Tobacco Denormalization as a Public Health Strategy: Implications for Sexual and Gender Minorities

Tobacco Denormalization as a Public Health Strategy: Implications for Sexual and Gender Minorities

Robust Science: Passive Smoking and Scientific Collaboration with the Tobacco Industry in the 1970s

Decolonising Research Methodologies in East Arnhem Land

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