The Special, Toxic Relatnship Between Gays and Smokg

Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) PEOPLE
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• THE SPECIAL, TOXIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GAYS AND SMOKG
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER
• MENTHOL CIGARETTE SMOKG AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS
• DID CDC SAY 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' THIS VIO?
• E-CIGARETTE USE AND RISK BEHAVRS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR ADULTS: THE BEHAVRAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (BRFSS) SURVEY
• FLORIDA JURY AWARDS GAY MAN $157 LN OM TOBAC PANI ATH OF SPOE
• MORY STRS, PRSN, AND CIGARETTE SMOKG AMONG CHE GAY VERS BISEXUAL MEN: A TWO-GROUP STCTURAL EQUATN MOL ANALYS
• ASSOCIATN OF COMG OUT AS LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL+ AND RISK OF CIGARETTE SMOKG A NATNALLY REPRENTATIVE SAMPLE OF YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS
• IN THE GAY WG OF L.A. MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL, IT'S NOT SHANKS AND MUGGGS BUT HAND-SEWN GOWNS AND TEARS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL SMOKERS ARE AT A HIGHER RISK FOR SMOKG MENTHOL CIGARETT

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. "Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".

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

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.

When we drove to the gay clubs of New York, my cigarett were fiery armor agast some of the strange, uniendly fac that populated those dark to Los Angel the early 2000s meant a huge change: I uldn't smoke si! I still smoked, though, pecially when I drank, and fely when I went dancg Wt Hollywood or Silver only did drkg and smokg go together well -- my md -- was a munal experience at the gay bars. The Natnal Adult Tobac Survey recently unvered that tobac prevalence among LGBT people is 50 percent higher than any other many gay people like myself, cigarett nstute one of the most endurg relatnships our liv and, as Stockholm Syndrome, we've nvced ourselv we need this abive partner.

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. 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.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

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. 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.

”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.

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.... 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. 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.

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. 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.

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. ”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.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

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.

”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. 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).

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

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).

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.

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

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. Furthermore, our study monstrat the importance of studyg LGB populatn subgroups, bee we found differenc not only brand e between LGB and heterosexual smokers, but also between lbian/gay and bisexual smokers.

A Florida jury has award a gay man more than $157 ln a wrongful ath lawsu after his hband died om lung ncer ed by smokg cigarett, what an attorney said is the first such se volvg a same-sex married Capr was diagnosed 1996 wh chronic obstctive pulmonary disease. Another study focg on Che adult gay and bisexual men dited a cigarette smokg prevalence of 66%, [14] approximately 15% higher than the natnal average and 22–33% higher than the cy-level prevalence [5].

Meyer (1995; 2003) suggted that mory strs n take the forms of distal mory strs, or external procs and experienc faced by sexual mori, cludg discrimatn experienc; and proximal strs, or ternal procs and experienc such as outns, rejectn anticipatn, inty ncealment, and ternalized homophobia [16, 17].

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

(2015) found that gay/bisexual men a qualative study scribed nstant prsure om fay, social, and workplace to have a female partner, and they also stated the difficulti to tablish stable same-sex relatnships [43]. Cha studied smokg among sexual mory youth and actually found the reverse pattern, that male bisexual and heterosexual youth shared siar smokg patterns while gay youth reported higher smokg rat pared to heterosexual unterparts [13].

G., pri events), pared to gay youth; or, bisexual youth Cha might be ls likely to pe mory strs wh smokg [13] date, is unclear whether signifint heterogeney exist between Che gay and bisexual men regardg their mory strs experienc and related health risks. This study aimed to ntribute to the lerature by examg the prevalence of cigarette smokg a sample of Che gay and bisexual men and their distct mory strs - smokg pathways, g the two-group (gay vs.

Briefly, between September 2017 and January 2018, we llected basele survey data of 755 self-intified gay and bisexual men g venue-based samplg om llege mp-based sexual mory-servg anizatns four ci, namely Beijg, Wuhan, Nanchang, and Changsha, as the ci have high ncentratn of LGBT populatns.

FLORIDA JURY AWARDS GAY MAN $157 LN OM TOBAC PANI ATH OF SPOE

1Hypothized nceptual mol of mory strsor to cigarette smokg among gay and bisexual men ChaFull size imageMory strsorsInformed by Mory Strs Theory [16, 17], we measured distal mory strsors (everyday discrimatn), proximal mory strsors (outns, rejectn anticipatn, inty ncealment, and ternalized homophobia), general strsors (adverse childhood experienc), and strs-moratg factors (social support and rilience). 2Specified two-group stctural equatn mol of rejectn anticipatn to cigarette smokg for both gay and bisexual men ChaFull size imageThen, we examed the mol f and path-efficients of the fal two-group stctural SEM.

Bisexual orientatn Che gay and bisexual men (N = 676)Full size tableCorrelatn statisticsThe rrelatn matrix examg group differenc between gays and bisexuals (Table 2) dited that employment was the only signifint rrelate of cigarette smokg both gay and bisexual subgroups. Table 2 Correlatn matrix examg rrelat of past 30-day cigarett smokg among the full sample of Che sexual mory men, gays, and bisexuals, rpectively (N = 676)Full size tableSequential logistic regrsn molsTable 3 shows the rults om four regrsn mols.

MORY STRS, PRSN, AND CIGARETTE SMOKG AMONG CHE GAY VERS BISEXUAL MEN: A TWO-GROUP STCTURAL EQUATN MOL ANALYS

Table 3 Sequential logistic regrsns intifyg rrelat of past 30-day cigarette e among gay and bisexual men Cha (N = 676)Full size tableTwo-group SEMMeasurement molWe nstcted unnstraed and nstraed measurement CFA mols.

More rearch is need to nfirm the relatnship between var mory strsors and prsive symptoms different cultural direct relatnship between prsn and cigarette smokg among gay and bisexual men was dited. It may be that some young participants or stunt participants our study might still be explorg their inti and assume themselv to be gay, bisexual, or heterosexual, pendg on the sex of their current partners [56].

Taken together, is possible that Che bisexual men, who might have female sex partners, feel more prsured to adhere to mascule norms and are more likely to adopt mascule-associated behavrs such as smokg than gay men. Further rearch is warranted to unrstand the extent to which the genr norms or feme/mascule inty operat as an pennt mediator or morator on the pathway between ternalized homophobia and smokg behavrs among Che sexual mory men. Although we did not intify the pathway lkg mory strs and cigarette smokg between gay and bisexual men, future studi n explore the role of mory strs and differenc cigarette smokg rat across sexual mory subgroups urban and ral Cha and beyond orr to sign tailored and targeted tobac csatn terventns.

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

While Marlboro parent pany Philip Morris received prs attentn 1991 for s donatns to HIV/ AIDS rearch, the LGBTQ anti-tobac se reported that cigarette pani provid two to three tim more support to policians opposed to gay rights than those for them.

IN THE GAY WG OF L.A. MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL, IT'S NOT SHANKS AND MUGGGS BUT HAND-SEWN GOWNS AND TEARS

Dunn Roy, a gay Brish film producer who was held K6G for 89 days whout bail 2012, unr ex–Sheriff Lee Ba’s ntroversial terpretatn of “immigratn holds, ” rells, “In other parts of the jail, you try and smuggle dgs and cigarett.

” The clost thg to a gay wg another big, urban jail system, though isn’t close at all, is at the Old Wayne County Jail Detro, which offers a small number of locked cells to gay and transgenr mat. David Arrieta, one gay mate given permissn to speak to the Weekly and be viotaped si the gay wg, explas, “Beg a Hoe Moe [the heterosexual si of Men’s Central Jail], you are nsired a rat, whereas K6G you are nsired a fairy.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL SMOKERS ARE AT A HIGHER RISK FOR SMOKG MENTHOL CIGARETT

When mat are first assigned to a gay dorm, they are immediately stripped of their general-populatn, dark blue jail uniforms and given the powr-blue uniforms that signify they are gay or transgenr. Alexanr Lara, wrg the Southern California Interdisciplary Law Journal, reported that a 2007 study of California mat showed 5 percent of straight men were victims of sexual asslt cludg rape, while “an astonishg” 67 percent of gay, bisexual and transgenr mat were.

A Hoe Moe another gay dorm, Rub, explas that his role is to ensure that mat follow puti’ l, such as quietly lyg down on their beds, facg the aisleway and fully drsed their blu, “out of rpect” when the puti brg their meals.