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*Few low SES smokers questioned their smoking status, instead framing smoking as a ‘fact of life’. However, there was also a clear sense that tobacco control, and its adherents, are contributing to a sense of stigmatised identity for these smokers. | *Few low SES smokers questioned their smoking status, instead framing smoking as a ‘fact of life’. However, there was also a clear sense that tobacco control, and its adherents, are contributing to a sense of stigmatised identity for these smokers. | ||
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==Articles, Websites, Blogs - Smoking== | |||
===2015: [https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2015/11/smoking-stigma-backfires-hurts-efforts-quit.html Smoking stigma can hurt efforts to quit]=== | |||
*Public health campaigns that stigmatize smoking can backfire, according to a study published Monday, leading some people to become so angry and defensive that they refuse to quit and others feeling so bad about themselves that they give up trying. | |||
*Smokers reported feeling shame, guilt and embarrassment for their smoking behavior and used words such as “leper,” “outcast,” “bad person,” “low-life” and “pathetic” to describe themselves, the study found. These feelings increased after failed attempts to quit smoking. | |||
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=='''Studies, Papers, Reports - Employment and Insurance'''== | =='''Studies, Papers, Reports - Employment and Insurance'''== | ||
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