دورية أكاديمية
Tobacco Road Finland - how did an accepted pleasure turn into an avoidable risk behaviour?
| العنوان: | Tobacco Road Finland - how did an accepted pleasure turn into an avoidable risk behaviour? |
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| المؤلفون: | Hakkarainen P; National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction, Mannerheimintie 164a, P.O. Box 30, FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: pekka.hakkarainen@thl.fi. |
| المصدر: | Social science & medicine (1982) [Soc Sci Med] 2013 Dec; Vol. 98, pp. 253-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Oct 10. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Pergamon Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8303205 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-5347 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02779536 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, c1982- |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Attitude to Health* , Health Policy* , Smoking Prevention* , Social Change*, Smoking/*psychology, Finland ; Humans ; Models, Psychological ; Pleasure ; Risk-Taking ; Smoking/adverse effects ; Smoking Cessation/statistics & numerical data ; Social Problems ; Tobacco Use Disorder/etiology |
| مستخلص: | Smoking was once defined as an appropriate recreational substance or life comfort, but is now understood as a serious health risk and a public health problem important enough to be controlled by society. In this article the changed social position and development of tobacco regulations in Finland are studied from a perspective of social constructionism. The emergence of recent tobacco controls can be seen as a process whereby tobacco came to be defined as a social problem. I will argue that there were three primary definitions which played a decisive role in this process. Put in historical order, these three definitions contained (1) claims about harms to smokers, (2) claims about harms to others, and (3) claims about tobacco as a highly addictive drug. These conceptions together drove a complementary and mutually reinforcing re-conception of tobacco harms. Consequently, the emergence of these definitions led to the founding of new institutions, practices, and treatments. The leading value in the claim-making process was public health, which transferred the state's interest away from fiscal revenues towards lowering the costs caused by tobacco diseases. Correspondingly, medical science and medical doctors gained a position as the leading authority in the defining the tobacco issue. The latest conceptual innovation is the idea of a tobacco-free Finland by 2040, representing a strategy of 'de-normalising' tobacco use. The reversal in the social and cultural position of tobacco, which in Finland went from one extreme to another, was not based on pressure created by any wider social movements or organised tobacco-specific citizens groups, as in some other countries, but rather by a state health administration supported by a relatively small network of tobacco control advocates. (Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.) |
| فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: Finland; Nicotine addiction; Passive smoking; Policy analysis; Social constructionism; Social problems; Tobacco; Tobacco-free Finland by 2040 |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20131217 Date Completed: 20140418 Latest Revision: 20171116 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20221213 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.10.002 |
| PMID: | 24331906 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1873-5347 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.10.002 |