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Cultural context, older age and smoking in Scotland
— qualitative interviews with older smokers with arterial disease | | Author(s) | Odette Parry, Carolyn Thomson, Gerry Fowkes |
| Journal title | Health Promotion International, vol 17, no 4, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 309-316 |
| Keywords | Tobacco smoking ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Cardiovascular diseases ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | A Scottish qualitative interview study examines how smoking-related beliefs and behaviours in current smokers aged 65-84 with a smoking-related illness (arterial disease) is influenced by the wider cultural context of smoking. Over the course of their lives, the respondents' understanding of smoking as a socially acceptable behaviour of their youth has undergone dramatic change. While some respondents continued to associate their current smoking with their albeit reduced participation in social activities, others now smoked at home alone and associated smoking with increasing levels of isolation in their lives. By examining how social attitudes may contribute to smoking as a solitary activity, the paper highlights the applications of cultural context for the adaptive strategies that older people use to cope with the circumstances and conditions of later life. The paper concludes that the wider cultural context of smoking is influential in shaping smoking as either an isolated "home" activity, or as a "social" activity for those whose opportunities to smoke in the private sphere are limited by disapproval of significant others. Within the social context, however, these "social" smokers experience further constraints which shape and reduce their smoking behaviour. (OFFPRINT) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030714207 A |
| Classmark | ETT: F: CQ: DP: 3DP: 9A * |
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