HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Advertising, Social Isolation
5 May 2017
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The gap between rich and poor is widening. Outbreaks are more common when there is crowding. The relationship between income and health isn"t always linear. Better understanding of the relationship between behaviours and health. Better access to service to empower healthy behaviours. Individuals in certain communities are more at risk to become smokers and suffer from tobacco-related disease and death. More cigarette advertising: larger signs, and three times as many brand ads in poor neighbourhoods. Tobacco advertising in communities: associations with race and class. Tobacco companies target these communities to encourage the habit. Stresses if living in poverty and sometimes hopelessness also cause people to turn to cigarettes. Survivors of abuse turn to smoking for psychological reasons. Social isolation caused by poverty can lead to comfort-seeking ,i. e. smoking. Poor workers who are trying to quit are more likely than rich workers to work alongside people who are still smoking.
