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*..."Tobacco Control is instituting a new policy of people-first language when referring to people who use tobacco and related products. Terms such as ‘smoker’, ‘vaper’ and ‘tobacco user’ (and their various iterations) should no longer be used as general descriptors." | *..."Tobacco Control is instituting a new policy of people-first language when referring to people who use tobacco and related products. Terms such as ‘smoker’, ‘vaper’ and ‘tobacco user’ (and their various iterations) should no longer be used as general descriptors." | ||
*"However, people-first language does not invalidate how people may choose to self-identify. It provides a broader conceptualisation which reduces the potential for stigma, resists tobacco industry narratives and promotes greater precision and accuracy, as well as creating space which recognises these self-claimed identities can change." | *"However, people-first language does not invalidate how people may choose to self-identify. It provides a broader conceptualisation which reduces the potential for stigma, resists tobacco industry narratives and promotes greater precision and accuracy, as well as creating space which recognises these self-claimed identities can change." | ||
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=='''Publication Policies - Language (General)'''== | |||
===2023: [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16302 How ''Addiction'' handles disagreements over potentially harmful terminology]=== | |||
*[https://twitter.com/KeithNHumphreys/status/1684288642834137088 Twitter(X) Thread by Lead Author] | |||
*Editors, reviewers, authors and readers of ''Addiction'' agree that journal articles should not contain terminology that harms vulnerable groups, but disagree about which terms those are and what should replace them. ''Addiction'' therefore promotes principled, civil discussion when such disagreements occur. | |||
*PRINCIPLE 1: EVERYONE IS ALLOWED TO REFER TO THEMSELVES AS THEY WISH | |||
*PRINCIPLE 2: WHETHER A POPULATION WANTS TO BE CALLED A PARTICULAR TERM IS AN EMPIRICAL QUESTION | |||
*PRINCIPLE 3: WHETHER ANY PARTICULAR TERM IS HARMFUL IS AN EMPIRICAL QUESTION | |||
*PRINCIPLE 4: HISTORICAL ACCURACY IS A SCHOLARLY OBLIGATION | |||
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