LGBT smokers: Why are so many gay people smokg?

Contents:

• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS HAVE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL COACH
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) PEOPLE
• DID CDC SAY 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' THIS VIO?
• THE SPECIAL, TOXIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAYS AND SMOKG
• MENTHOL CIGARETTE SMOKG AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS
• WHY DO SO MANY GAY PEOPLE SMOKE?
• TORTURED WH CIGARETT, BLAS FOR BEG GAY
• E-CIGARETTE USE AND RISK BEHAVRS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS: THE BEHAVRAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) SURVEY
• MENTHOL CIGARETTE SMOKG AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS
• ASSOCIATN OF COMG OUT AS LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL+ AND RISK OF CIGARETTE SMOKG A NATNALLY REPRENTATIVE SAMPLE OF YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS

ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS HAVE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL COACH

Former The Bachelor lead Colton Unrwood me out as gay on Good Morng Ameri  April 2021, a year after his 2020 breakup wh Cassie Randolph, whom he met on the show, and to whom he apologized this new terview for the ighteng behavr that led her to file a rtrag orr agast him after their spl. Atralian sger and actor Troye Sivan me out as gay to his fans 2013 via YouTube vio, and he’s been open about what ’s like navigatg fame as a young gay man ever sce. Though the 2019 mic vio for his song “Ease My Md” was the first time Ben Platt went public about beg gay, he said he wasn’t hidg before.

4 billn per year for the Uned Stat alone, 2 and the hidn tth about today's targeted marketg of vulnerable groups such as lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youths will be even harr to exvate than was yterday' Tobac's past approach toward targetg mori, pecially Ain Amerins, are illumatg and may prove stctive for tectg s current ploys toward forbidn markets such as youths, pecially LGBT youths. The new targets clu Hispanics, the fastt growg element of the populatn, and sexual, tobac firms are emergg om their rporate closets to openly engage every type of marketg targeted at gay adults.

The first clue is a look at the us of that targetg, bee the overwhelmg majory of adult smokers were once unrage smokers, and almost no smokers, gay or straight, take up the hab after age 20. 9, 10Gay and lbian adults smoke twice as much as their as this picture is, the prospects of avoidg tobac addictn are much bleaker for LGBT youths. 11 The Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) lculat that the life expectancy of a homosexual man is 8 to 20 years ls than that of other men14 and that high smokg rat ntribute directly and directly to their early aths.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) PEOPLE

Young gay smokers are the greatt risk takers; their higher rat of alhol and dg e15 lead many experts to characterize tobac as a “gateway dg” for gay youths also pay a high price direct health effects of their smokg addictn, such as 30% to 87% higher rat of ncer.

DID CDC SAY 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' THIS VIO?

18 Tobac firms therefore know that their efforts to target gays and lbians will work only if they target gay youths younger than 18, the legal smokg age most tobac dtry's targetg of the LGBT muni is a matter of rerd.

Alhol pani, many owned by tobac firms, have targeted gays12 as far back as the 1950s, when Joseph Cotton, wh a hand rtg on his double, slyly touted Smirnoff vodka, “mixed or straight.

”19 Tobac pani have always been aware of sexual mori as ctomers who smoked at extremely high rat, but only the last have they embraced marketg targeted at gays earnt and large secret tobac documents placed on var Web s afford revealg sights to the dtry's changg perceptn of the LGBT muni. Internal memos reveal that tobac pani sought gay voters' support as early as 1983, 2 when they wished to repeal workplace smokg bans San Francis.

THE SPECIAL, TOXIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAYS AND SMOKG

12 An ternal Philip Morris memo om 1985 reveals gdgg admiratn at how views of gays and lbians as ctomers were changg: “It seems to me that homosexuals have ma enormo progrs changg their image this untry.... In the 1990s, jt after the protts that aborted the marketg of Uptown to urban Ain Amerins, a “Top Secret Operatn Ramaker” memo listed gays as a marketg “issue” to be discsed.

Benson & Hedg, for s part, touted a seri of gay-themed ads for s Kgs brand Genre, a gay fashn and liftyle magaze, as well as Esquire and GQ, which have signifint gay male marketers have not overlooked lbian and bisexual women. ”Marlboro, the most popular cigarette brand among gay men, has flnted the brand's gged hypermascule image venu lculated to appeal to gays.

But the top 5 Amerin tobac pani had disvered that there was green Black muni, and the tobac dtry offered Ain Amerins fluential work and well-paid reers when other pani barred Blacks om their as tobac pani today hire openly gay staff and pour funds to LGBT anizatns, both lol and natnal, they filled the sh-starved ffers of nearly every fluential Ain Amerin anizatn om the Natnal Urban League to lol church.

MENTHOL CIGARETTE SMOKG AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS

12 The synergy of alhol and smokg is a special hazard for gays, as multipli the risks of ncer and other importance of the bar culture is not lost on the dtry, whose documents show a heavy marketg vtment bar crowds, cludg “Ain Amerin” and “alternative” bars where tobac pany reprentativ distribute ee cigarette sampl, hold ntts wh tobac premiums as priz, and sometim take over the bar to buy ee drks.

Reynolds's special targets were gay people the Castro district, where, as the pany noted, “The opportuny exists for a cigarette manufacturer to domate. Acrdg to the Tobac Instute, by September 23, 1992, the dtry had enlisted the help of lol gay and lbian allianc to pass smoker protectn/“antidiscrimatn” laws 20 stat.

38Sometim, however, tobac pani knew that anti-tobac LGBT groups troubled by high rat of LGBT addictn would not support them, so they formulated plans to cut the learship groups out of the picture and appeal directly to gay 1998, California voters were offered Proposn 10, a measure to substantially hike cigarette tax.

WHY DO SO MANY GAY PEOPLE SMOKE?

A ncerned Tobac Instute (an dtry nsortium) sought profsnal advice om marketers, rearchers, and nsultants on how bt to garner the gay vote.

Consultant David Mixner advised the Tobac Instute “to bypass” gay anizatns: “Sce is apparent that we are not gog to have the endorsement of most Gay and Lbian learship, is important to e the mpaign tools to bypass that and go directly to the Gay and Lbian voter wh a msage that will ronate.

TORTURED WH CIGARETT, BLAS FOR BEG GAY

”39Jt as stgglg Ain Amerin media tend to fend (or to nveniently ignore) targeted marketg by Big Tobac, some LGBT media view tobac's growg attentn to gay and lbian ctomers as a rponse to a Augt 17, 1992, Wall Street Journal story by Joanne Lipman, Don Tuthill, the publisher of Genre, wrote, “The Philip Morris/Genre story is not a story of‘the tobac dtry... Lots of pani are addg diversy marketg to their budgets, which ed to mean money for advertisg maly to blacks and Hispanics, but now 's meant largely, and sometim maly, for gay and lbian ctomers. For example, although Lorillard market rearch tails that Ain Amerin men are the largt market for menthol cigarett, some Los Angel and New York Hispanic muni, menthol is perceived as the choice of gay men.

E-CIGARETTE USE AND RISK BEHAVRS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS: THE BEHAVRAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) SURVEY

”12 Reemstma's Web s clu one labeled “Queer, ” which offers a dazzlg rnupia of advertisements, news, fashn, mic, gam, chat rooms, explic gay pornography, and, of urse, tobac products, all tailored to the tast and terts of LGBT nsumers. From pickups to SUVS: wkg ads that appealed to gay men as early as the 1950's lead the way for today's bold appeals to lbian and gay nsumers.

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. Cigarette smokg is the leadg preventable e of ath the US, and studi show that lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populatns have higher cigarette smokg rat than the general populatn (20%–27% vs 14%) (1, 2). First, we examed relatnships between sexual orientatn (heterosexual, gay, lbian, and bisexual) and cigarette brand preference a US-based, natnally reprentative sample.

Bee rponse optns clud more than 50 brands, we foced our analysis on participants who smoked the cigarette brands ed most monly across the 3 sexual orientatn groups our sample (heterosexual, lbian/gay, bisexual). In our analysis, we refer to mal who intified as nonheterosexual as gay or bisexual and femal who intified as nonheterosexual as lbian/gay or bisexual, bee, although “lbian” is one preferred inty termology among LGB women, LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, + [other sexual and genr mory inti]) advocy groups have signated “gay” as referrg to anyone of any genr who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of the same genr (17).

MENTHOL CIGARETTE SMOKG AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS

Most heterosexual and bisexual Newport smokers were Black/Ain Amerin or Whe, whereas most lbian/gay Newport smokers were Black/Ain Amerin (54. We found a signifint posive associatn between smokers intifyg as lbian/gay Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanr (vs lbian/gay Whe smokers) for both Marlboro and Newport e (Marlboro, OR = 7. US adult smokers who intified as lbian/gay or bisexual were more likely to smoke certa monly ed cigarette brands than heterosexuals (Camel, Marlboro, Newport, and Amerin Spir).

Gay/lbian smokers had slightly higher odds of Marlboro e than heterosexual smokers, and we found a signifint teractn between bisexual inty and genr for Marlboro e, where bisexual female smokers were more likely to e Marlboro cigarett than bisexual male smokers. A history of overt targeted marketg of Marlboro cigarett to gay men (19) and implic targeted marketg to LGB women (20) suggts a need for further studi of genr-targeted Marlboro advertisements and other ntributors to Marlboro e among LGB smokers. We also found associatns between the teractn of both lbian/gay and bisexual Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanr inty and Marlboro e, but the CIs of both fdgs were wi (possibly bee of small cell siz) and should be terpreted wh utn.

Genr also played a part Newport e by sexual orientatn, and female lbian/gay and female bisexual smokers were more likely to e Newport than male gay or bisexual smokers.

ASSOCIATN OF COMG OUT AS LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL+ AND RISK OF CIGARETTE SMOKG A NATNALLY REPRENTATIVE SAMPLE OF YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS

Fally, we found a signifint posive associatn between lbian/gay inty and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanr race or ethnicy and Newport e, which may be related to the aforementned targeted marketg efforts.