ArticleAmerican journal of public health2014
The origins of personal responsibility rhetoric in news coverage of the tobacco industry.
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- Shame-based appeals in a tobacco control public health campaign: potential harms and benefits.Tobacco control · 2015Article
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Abstract
The tobacco industry consistently frames smoking as a personal issue rather than the responsibility of cigarette companies. To identify when personal responsibility framing became a major element of the tobacco industry's discourse, we analyzed news coverage from 1966 to 1991. Industry representatives began to regularly use these arguments in 1977. By the mid 1980s, this frame dominated the industry's public arguments. This chronology illustrates that the tobacco industry's use of personal responsibility rhetoric in public preceded the ascension of personal responsibility rhetoric commonly associated with the Reagan Administration in the 1980s.
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