If anyone has a reason to smoke, gay people do. Gays have higher rat of PTSD, prsn, and anxiety—all of which lead to the urge for a cigarette....
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WHY DO SO MANY GAY PEOPLE SMOKE?
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So, the hands of a gay man, a cigar upends a part of society's expectatns for , while for others, fortifi . If anyone has a reason to smoke, gay people do.
Gays have higher rat of PTSD, prsn, and anxiety—all of which lead to the urge for a cigarette. And a tragilly high number of gay people are told that they are diseased, aberrant, trsilly disorred throughout their youths, fosterg a self-loathg that n lead, if not to suici, than to nearly suicidal activi.
Smokg, after all, is one of the ls harmful ways troubled gay people n stroy their bodi a va attempt to exorcise their mons. A pack of cigarett is certaly ls toxic than meth, bge drkg, and equent, anonymo unprotected sex—all nostms wh which some sufferg gays attempt to treat their mental wounds.
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In fact, a perverse way, the hazard is the draw for gay kids who see no reason to ntue livg. Instead, the solutn to the LGBTQ smokg crisis is, sentially, to do nothg—nothg more, that is, than we’re already dog to promote gay rights across the untry. Every time a stat’ cizens give the thumbs-up to gay marriage, every time a feral judge grants basic equaly to gay people, a new generatn of LGBTQ youth be a ltle ls prone to self-hatred and self-stctn.
Supreme Court Jtice Anthony Kennedy’s sistence that gay people serve equal digny probably did more to curb smokg among gay youth than any anti-smokg ad ever uld. As gay people bee more accepted mastream life, so, too, will gay teens feel ls tempted to exorcise their agony wh risky behavr like smokg. But until gay people are tly weled all facets of society, gay kids will keep turng to those vic that, the midst of such overwhelmg bleakns, provi a fleetg (and o) moment of relief.