ArticleJournal of health communication
Pictures worth a thousand words: noncommercial tobacco content in the lesbian, gay, and bisexual press.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identifying the ways in which tobacco cessation interventions have been tailored for sexual and gender minority individuals: A systematic review.Journal of health psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Promotion of tobacco use cessation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people: a systematic review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2014Pooled it
- A systematic review of the aetiology of tobacco disparities for sexual minorities.Tobacco control · 2013Pooled it
- Assessing the Potential Impact of Cigarette Packs Designed for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adults: A Randomized Experiment to Inform U.S. Regulation, 2018.Health promotion practice · 2020Trial
- Use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems for Weight Control Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals Who Smoke Cigarettes.Substance use & misuse · 2026Article
- Psychological Distress is Associated With Blunt Use Among Youth in the United States: Insights From the 2021-2023 National Youth Tobacco Surveys.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- Tobacco use by sexual and gender minorities: findings from a Brazilian national survey.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Are national antitobacco campaigns reaching high-risk adolescents? A cross-sectional analysis from PATH Wave 2.Health education research · 2020Article
- Cigarette smoking, ENDS use and dual use among a national sample of lesbians, gays and bisexuals.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2019Article
- SBM recommends policy support to reduce smoking disparities for sexual and gender minorities.Translational behavioral medicine · 2018Article
- A National Study of Social Media, Television, Radio, and Internet Usage of Adults by Sexual Orientation and Smoking Status: Implications for Campaign Design.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Intragroup Variance in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Tobacco Use Behaviors: Evidence That Subgroups Matter, Notably Bisexual Women.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Article
- Is There a Relationship Between the Concentration of Same-Sex Couples and Tobacco Retailer Density?Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Article
- Relationship Between Tobacco Retailers' Point-of-Sale Marketing and the Density of Same-Sex Couples, 97 U.S. Counties, 2012.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
- Out smoking on the big screen: tobacco use in LGBT movies, 2000-2011.Tobacco control · 2014Article
- Older smokers could be the strongest supporters for U.S. government regulation of tobacco: a focus group study.Tobacco induced diseases · 2013Article
- Quid pro quo: tobacco companies and the black press.American journal of public health · 2012Article
- High tobacco use among lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations in West Virginian bars and community festivals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2011Article
- Tobacco, marijuana, and sensation seeking: comparisons across gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual groups.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2009Article
- Alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use amongst same-sex attracted women: results from the Western Australian Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health and Well-Being Survey.BMC public health · 2009Article
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Abstract
Smoking prevalence in the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community is higher than in the mainstream population. The reason is undetermined; however, normalization of tobacco use in the media has been shown to affect smoking rates. To explore whether this might be a factor in the LGB community, we examined noncommercial imagery and text relating to tobacco and smoking in LGB magazines and newspapers. Tobacco-related images were frequent and overwhelmingly positive or neutral about tobacco use. Images frequently associated smoking with celebrities. Text items unrelated to tobacco were often illustrated with smoking imagery. Text items about tobacco were likely to be critical of tobacco use; however, there were three times as many images as text items. The number of image items was not accounted for by the number of text items: nearly three quarters of all tobacco-related images (73.8%) were unassociated with relevant text. Tobacco imagery is pervasive in LGB publications. The predominant message about tobacco use in the LGB press is positive or neutral; tobacco is often glamorized. Noncommercial print images of smoking may normalize it, as movie product placement does. Media advocacy approaches could counter normalization of smoking in LGB-specific media.
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