Turning “Smoking Man” Images Around

Portrayals of Smoking in Men's Magazines as a Blueprint for Smoking Cessation Campaigns

Bibliographic Data

ID7513349
AuthorsM J Dutta (0000-0002-2228-8100), Josh Boyd
Year2007
Volume22
Issue3
Pages253-263
Publication date2007-10-17
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1041-0236 • E-ISSN: 1532-7027
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10410230701626901
PMID17967147
OpenAlexW2096646442
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited26

Published scholarship documents the prevalence and health risks of smoking among men. There is also a rich tradition of studying the normative influences of the media in constructing and propagating images of healthy/unhealthy behaviors such as smoking. To understand the construction of these media-propagated smoking images toward male audiences, this article studies all advertising and editorial content of 3 major men's magazines for 2001 using rhetorical and content analyses. The emergent themes construct the smoking man as sensual, in another place, independent, and mysterious. The authors recommend turning around these themes of the masculine "smoking man" for the purpose of strategic media planning and developing message-targeting guidelines for smoking cessation and prevention messages directed at men

Art · Blueprint · Quit smoking · Smoking cessation · Smoking prevention · Sociology · Visual arts · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Medicine · Psychology · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Demography

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