The smoking ban in Ireland: Smoke-free or smokescreen?

Kuhling, Carmen

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“…For example, studies focusing specifically on smokefree and tobacco ‘denormalization’ policies have highlighted the class effects of such legislation, its potential to stigmatize smokers and the ways it may serve to reinforce smoking or push it into the home (e.g. Poland 1998, 2000; Kuhling 2004; Thompson et al. 2007; Bell et al.…”

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Whither Tobacco Studies?

Bell

2012

Sociology Compass

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In recent years, tobacco research has become an increasingly politicized field, with ‘legitimate’ research on this topic expected to further the goals of tobacco control. This paper presents an overview of the state of field of social science studies on tobacco and critiques the growing polarity evident in scholarship on this topic. Moving beyond mainstream public health perspectives, I outline a body of research that challenges dominant understandings of tobacco use and tobacco control. This research can be classified into three main categories: studies that interrogate conceptions of why people smoke, those that examine the impacts of tobacco control policy on smokers, and studies embracing intellectual and philosophical perspectives (especially phenomenology and social constructionism) that place them outside of a public health frame. I end with a broader discussion of the growing instrumentalization of social science research and the need to resist prescriptions that seek to dictate the appropriate form and content of scholarly work.

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Whither Tobacco Studies?

Bell

2012

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“…53 Abs. 1697 . Von mangelnder Transparenz 1698 sozialer Vergabekriterien kann also keine Rede sein 1699 .…”

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Die Zulässigkeit sozialer Vergabekriterien im Lichte des Gemeinschaftsrechts

Wiedmann¹

2007

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“…The introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland in 2004 is considered by many as one of the biggest “success stories” in public health policy, with anti-smoking advocates referring to it as “the health initiative of the century” (Clancy, 2004), “a runaway success” (Howell, 2005) and, more recently, “a ground breaking initiative” (Reilly, 2014). When the smoking ban was announced in 2003, many reacted with surprise that Ireland should become the first country in the world to introduce an overall blanket ban on smoking in the workplace, especially as a measure that would also affect restaurants and pubs, in a country often associated with pub culture (Gilmore, 2005; Kulhing, 2004). It now seems hard to imagine that surveys at the time of its announcement showed that 90% of the population in Ireland thought the ban would be either “very difficult” or “difficult” to enforce ( The Irish Examiner , 2003).…”

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No smoke without fire: Public health, morality, and the civilized self

Fernández

2016

Irish Journal of Sociology

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The implementation of the smoking ban in Ireland has been championed as one of the major achievements of public health policy. Studies on the smoking ban have predominantly been undertaken from a public health perspective and have pointed out the associated health benefits of the ban, especially in terms of the reduction of second-hand smoking. While the rationale for the smoking ban was founded on health and medical reasons, this paper contends that going beyond health concerns, a collective process which drew upon notions of progress, purity and order was central to the introduction and successful implementation of the smoking ban. The relevance of discourses around the “civilized self” in tobacco control is also discussed in the context of recent debates over the use and regulation of electronic cigarettes in public spaces.

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The smoking ban in Ireland: Smoke-free or smokescreen?

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Whither Tobacco Studies?

Whither Tobacco Studies?

Die Zulässigkeit sozialer Vergabekriterien im Lichte des Gemeinschaftsrechts

No smoke without fire: Public health, morality, and the civilized self

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