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*'''End stigma: Promote judgment-free, bias-free language. Try 'person who smokes' rather than 'smoker.' ''' [emphasis added] | *'''End stigma: Promote judgment-free, bias-free language. Try 'person who smokes' rather than 'smoker.' ''' [emphasis added] | ||
*'A person with nicotine dependence' instead of 'a nicotine addict.' | *'A person with nicotine dependence' instead of 'a nicotine addict.' | ||
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=='''Tweets about discontinuing the use of "Smoker"'''== | |||
===[https://twitter.com/imaracingmom/status/1557396600636547072 Skip Murray]=== | |||
*What would it take for me to convince the scientific and public health communities to switch from the stigmatizing word "smokers" and switch to something else? Perhaps "people who smoke (PWS)." | |||
===[https://twitter.com/CrisDelnevo/status/1557455819301482496 Cristine Delnevo, PhD, MPH, FAAHB]=== | |||
*You're 100% correct - admittedly, when on autopilot, I've written "smokers" and revised when editing. I'm a fallible human, a work in progress, and trying to do better. What would it take? keep calling us out on it! we need to retrain our brains. | |||
===[https://twitter.com/MaloneRuth/status/1557478522800574471 Ruth Malone PhD]=== | |||
*This is right & we’ve had a lot of conversations about this at TC_BMJ but I know some still slip through. Anyway, the point is our concern ought to focus on these horrible products, not on individual behaviors. Thank you for this reminder. | |||
===[https://twitter.com/AmandaPalmerPhD/status/1579874426598068229 Amanda Palmer, PhD]=== | |||
*When reviewing articles that use the word "smoker" or something similar, I suggest to the authors to use person-centered language and then write a nice note to the editor encouraging wiggle room with the word limit | |||
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