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:
- DID CDC SAY 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' THIS VIO?
- WHY DO GAYS SMOKE SO MUCH?
- ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
DID CDC SAY 'IT'S GAY TO SMOKE' THIS VIO?
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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.
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 solo *
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. 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.
ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
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 solo *
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. 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.