The "'s gay to smoke" vio qutn, purportedly om the CDC, had been viewed more on TikTok a week than on YouTube 10 years.
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.
DID CDC SAY 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' THIS VIO?
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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.
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 *
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 SPECIAL, TOXIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAYS AND SMOKG
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.
QUEER QU: GAY SMOKERS’ PERSPECTIV ON A CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SMOKG CSATN SERVICE
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. At the same time, she managed to overlook the bldgly obv: Gays are disproportnately childls, and childls people are more likely to smoke.
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
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.