Cigarettes & Other Tobacco Use in Women Flashcards
Cigarette
Nicotine delivery device
Transfer of affect method of attitude change
Associating product with something else that is seen positively. It is a common technique used to advertise tobacco products.
(ex. pairing tobacco products with sports, a beautiful scenery, slim body, etc)
Stats on tobacco use
Every single year, more than 8 million people die from tobacco-related use.
Men are more likely than women to use tobacco globally and in the US. But we see a decline in tobacco products for both sexes, but a greater decline for men
How is tobacco advertised/effectively marketed to women?
- Seen as the symbom of women’s independence, especially in areas where womn are getting more financial stability
- Lack of health education
- Parental smoking
- Peer smoking
- Exposure to use of tobacco in media (i.e., movies)
- In developing countries, there are massive advertising campaigns combined with changing gender roles/increased earning power
- Making tobacco products more available/accessible
- Transfer of affect: companies associate tobacco products with “western women/values”/”cosmopolitan”, desired body image
- The sponsors of many events or charities targeted towards women are tobacco companies
Menthol cigarettes
More deadly/toxic/addictive than conventional cigarettes. Are marketed specifically to POC groups
ENDS
Electronic Nicotine Delivery System
Third Hand Exposure
Nicotine that someone exhales in the aerosol from an electronic cigarette. It can last on a surface so that someone who then touches that surface has this third hand exposure.
Smoking in Asia
Ironically seen as the symbol of women’s autonomy and liberation. It’s a paradox because a product of heavy dependence is a symbol for women’s independence.
On Screen Smoking
Young people who are exposed to on screen smoking when watching a film are about 2-3x more likely to become smoking than young people without this exposure.
Smoke-Free Legislation
Successful for increasing the rates of cessation and reducing consumption since there are fewer public places to smoke. Benefits the smokers and their families.
Study looking at the number of premature births and children’s visits to hospital due to asthma –> There were fewer children born preterm or visits to the hospital due to asthma in areas with smoke-free laws
Effects Seen in Women who Smoke
Have 2x the risk of developing lung cancer compared to men, have higher rates of infertility, more likely to have pregnancy complications/deliver a stillborn/SIDS
Children of Tobacco Users
More likely to have higher blood pressure, lower IQ, behavioral problems like hyperactivity, and/or become tobacco users themselves
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It used to be a disease for men. But now its prevalence is almost as high for women as in men
Tobacco use cessation outcomes in women
Women have poorer outcomes than men, in general, women have a harder time quitting. This could be for a multitude of reasons:
- Co-occurring –> women are more likely to be ungoing other things while they try to stop smoking, like depression
- Healthcare providers are less likely to ask the female patient if they’re smoking or to encourage their female patient to stop quitting
Studies find that
- men and women tend to expence similar withdrawal symptoms
- women report that they get more social pressure to quit especially from their children
- women are not less motivated to quit; in fact, they are motivated and more likely to seek help
- women use more quitting activities (gum, patches) than men
- women are equally dependent as men are, even though women may report they have more emotional dependence.
Smokeless Tobacco/Electronic Cigarettes
Don’t have great evidence of all other chemicals inhaled when vaping.
- issues with liquid used in products: rise in children being poisoned by exposure to liquid vape juice
- majority of people that are vaping are also using cigarettes –> lead to adverse health outcomes such as stiffened arteries, and increase in heart disease and stroke
