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*"Smoking and tobacco use are widely recognized as an addiction, not merely a personal choice, and health care clinicians increasingly address this chronic, relapsing disease using recovery-oriented language. Terms such as “cessation” are being replaced with “treatment” and “smoker” replaced with person-first language such as “person who smokes.”" | *"Smoking and tobacco use are widely recognized as an addiction, not merely a personal choice, and health care clinicians increasingly address this chronic, relapsing disease using recovery-oriented language. Terms such as “cessation” are being replaced with “treatment” and “smoker” replaced with person-first language such as “person who smokes.”" | ||
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20230326001139/https://www.apna.org/news/psychiatric-mental-health-nursings-role-in-tobacco-treatment/ Link on WayBack Machine] | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20230326001139/https://www.apna.org/news/psychiatric-mental-health-nursings-role-in-tobacco-treatment/ Link on WayBack Machine] | ||
===2019: [https://filtermag.org/how-widespread-anti-smoker-stigma-is-harmful-as-well-as-wrong/ Widespread Anti-Smoker Stigma Is Harmful, as Well as Wrong]=== | |||
*"Ordinarily, stigmatizing a disease or observing medical practitioners making decisions based on social characteristics would raise the hackles of the public health community. With smoking, however, this hasn’t been the case. In fact, many anti-smoking campaigns actually turn to stigmatization as a behavioral control tactic." | |||
===Comments by people who don't smoke=== | ===Comments by people who don't smoke=== | ||
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*The People First Charter launched in July 2021, during the Berlin International AIDS Society Conference, to promote person first HIV & Sexual Health language. | *The People First Charter launched in July 2021, during the Berlin International AIDS Society Conference, to promote person first HIV & Sexual Health language. | ||
*Language matters. People living with or at risk of HIV experience stigma & discrimination and the wrong language perpetuates this. | *Language matters. People living with or at risk of HIV experience stigma & discrimination and the wrong language perpetuates this. | ||
===2020: [https://filtermag.org/language-addiction-treatment/ The Real Harms of Abusive, Stigmatizing Language in Addiction Treatment]=== | |||
*One study found that the terms “addict” and “substance abuser” led people to hold distinctly negative associations about the people they described. Another found that replacing less obviously pernicious terms, like “relapse” and “medication-assisted treatment,” with “recurrence of use” and “pharmacotherapy,” resulted in more positive views of people with substance use disorders. | |||
===2017: [https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/40/4/zsx039/3062257 People-Centered Language Recommendations for Sleep Research Communication]=== | ===2017: [https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/40/4/zsx039/3062257 People-Centered Language Recommendations for Sleep Research Communication]=== | ||
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