Learn more about the harmful effects of smokg, smokels tobac, and sendhand smoke as they relate to gay and bisexual men.
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) PEOPLE
- DID CDC SAY 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' THIS VIO?
- WHY DO GAYS SMOKE SO MUCH?
- THE SPECIAL, TOXIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAYS AND SMOKG
- QUEER QU: GAY SMOKERS’ PERSPECTIV ON A CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SMOKG CSATN SERVICE
- FACT CHECK: CDC DID NOT LNCH 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' AD CAMPAIGN -- IT'S A DE-OLD FAKE AD FROM A SATIRE NEWS SE
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) PEOPLE
Smokg-related statistics, rmatn, and qutg rourc specific to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) muni. Part of the Tips om Former Smokers mpaign, which featur real people sufferg as a rult of smokg and exposure to sendhand smoke. * gay smoke *
Smokg among lbian, gay, and bisexual adults the Uned Stat is much higher than among heterosexual/straight adults. 3%) of lbian, gay, and bisexual adults smoke cigarett, pared wh about 1 9 (11. The CDC released a vio that said, "It's gay to smoke.
In mid-April 2021, a TikTok vio purported to show an anti-smokg PSA that said, "It's gay to smoke. It then showed a mera poted at a screen that played the "It's gay to smoke" clip. "Are they smokg, or are they gay?
The words "It's gay to smoke" are followed by the mentn of the CDC. In sum, the purported CDC PSA that claimed "'s gay to smoke" origated as satire om The Onn. I’ve jt learned om NPR’s All Thgs Consired that California, gay men and lbians are 70 percent more likely to smoke than the general populatn.
DID CDC SAY 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' THIS VIO?
The "'s gay to smoke" vio qutn, purportedly om the CDC, had been viewed more on TikTok a week than on YouTube 10 years. * gay smoke *
In a sterlg example of why I try not to listen to too much NPR, reporter Sarah Varney immediately segued to the perceived need for more anti-smokg ads targeted specifilly at gays.
In other words, Varney implicly assum that gays are eher too stupid to have gotten the msage that smokg is bad for you or too irratnal to have modified their behavr acrdgly. A more quisive reporter might stead have raised the obv qutn: What good reasons might gays have to smoke more than other people? In four mut of air time, the clost Varney me to addrsg that qutn was to suggt that for gays, steppg outsi for a cigarette n be a good way to meet people—as if the sire to meet people somehow differentiat gays om straights.
WHY DO GAYS SMOKE SO MUCH?
I've jt learned om NPR's All Thgs Consired that California, gay men and lbians are 70 percent more likely to smoke than the general... * gay smoke *
At the same time, she managed to overlook the bldgly obv: Gays are disproportnately childls, and childls people are more likely to smoke. As a matter of fact, childls hoeholds (whether gay or straight) spend, on average, 56 percent more on cigarett and alhol than their childbearg neighbors. That alone might be enough to expla why perfectly ratnal gays (along wh perfectly ratnal childls straights) smoke more than their neighbors.
But fay size is not the only dimensn which gays—particularly those gays who intify themselv as such to pollsters—are different om straights. The openly gay face some social opprobrium. Maybe ’s not too surprisg, then, that out-of-the-closet gays and out-of-the-closet smokers are disproportnately the same people.
THE SPECIAL, TOXIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAYS AND SMOKG
(You n image the possibili: “Now that my parents have learned to al wh my gayns, I might as well tell them I smoke. I’m not sure how to tt those hypoth, and I’m not sure how plsible they are, but surely they’re both more plsible and more rpectful than the suggtn that gays need to see specifilly gay-oriented advertisg before they n unrstand that smokg is bad for them. Why, then, should gay smokers be the unique exceptn to the le that smokers behave ratnally?
Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people smoke more often than their straight and cisgenr lleagu and iends. Populatn is eher lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT), acrdg to a Williams Instute report.
QUEER QU: GAY SMOKERS’ PERSPECTIV ON A CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SMOKG CSATN SERVICE
6% of lbian, gay and bisexual people were current smokers 2015, pared to 14. For example, rearch suggts that gay, bisexual or lbian people are five tim more likely to say they’ll never ll a qu-le for smokg.
Siarly, gay, bisexual and transgenr men are ls likely to be aware of the existence of such qul than straight men. Lbian, gay and bisexual youth are twice as likely to smoke a cigarette before they are 13 years old.
About one four lbian, gay and bisexual adults smoke cigarett, pared to one six heterosexual adults. Studi over the past suggt that gay men smoke at higher rat than men the general U. This puts gay and bisexual men at high risk for smokg-related illns.
FACT CHECK: CDC DID NOT LNCH 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' AD CAMPAIGN -- IT'S A DE-OLD FAKE AD FROM A SATIRE NEWS SE
Ltle is known about cigarette brand preference (which enurag staed smokg behavr) among lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) smokers, who have higher cigarette smokg rat than heterosexual populatns.
Lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populatns have higher cigarette smokg rat than heterosexual populatns. LGB smokers were more likely to e Camel (lbian/gay, OR = 1. 2]) and Amerin Spir cigarett (lbian/gay, OR = 2.
Lbian/gay smokers had higher odds of Marlboro cigarette e (OR = 1. Interactns between LGB and female inti (vs gay or bisexual male) were posively associated wh Camel, Marlboro, and Newport e. The teractn between lbian/gay and Hispanic/Lato ethnicy (vs lbian/gay Whe) was also posively associated wh Newport e.