Is Smoking Queer? Implications of California Tobacco Denormalization Strategies for Queer Current and Former Smokers

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ID2153253
AuthorsEmile Sanders (0000-0001-6462-0127, Prevention Research Center, Oakland, CA, USA, corresponding author), Tamar M J Antin (0000-0002-2490-419X, Institute for Scientific Analysis), Tamar Antin (Prevention Research Center, Oakland, CA, USA), Geoff Hunt (0000-0002-7067-3310, Aarhus University), Geoffrey Hunt, Malisa Young (Prevention Research Center, Oakland, CA, USA)
Year2020
Volume41
Issue4
Pages497-511
Publication date2020-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDeviant Behavior (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01639625.2019.1572095
PMID33311820
OpenAlexW2911829497
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited74

This article is concerned with normative conceptions of health structuring tobacco control strategies designed to "denormalize" tobacco use. Analysis of 201 interviews with non-heterosexual and/or non-cisgender adults in California revealed that participants implicated tobacco use in exacerbating health inequities and perpetuating harmful narratives of queer suffering, but also regarded smoking as a critical tool for self-care and symbol of resistance. Participant narratives suggest that using stigma in health promotion efforts which reinforce normative conceptions of health may be harmful to queer people whose social identities exist within ongoing legacies of pathology, health stigma, and deviance from hegemonic structural norms

Ableism · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Deviance (statistics · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Psychiatry · Public health · Queer · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Tobacco control · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology

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