ArticleThe International journal on drug policy2018
How will e-cigarettes affect health inequalities? Applying Bourdieu to smoking and cessation.
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- Potential for non-combustible nicotine products to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in smoking: a systematic review and synthesis of best available evidence.BMC public health · 2019Pooled it
- The association of modifiable and socio-demographic factors with first transitions from smoking to exclusive e-cigarette use, dual use or no nicotine use: Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children United Kingdom birth cohort.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- What Is the Role of Imagined Futures in the Development of E-Cigarette Use among Young People?Sociology · 2025Article
- Patterns and perceptions of vaping among adults living in social housing: a representative survey in Great Britain, 2023.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Subculture wars: The struggle for the vape industry.The British journal of sociology · 2023Article
- Socio-economic distribution of e-cigarette use among recent former regular smokers and current smokers at ages 25-26 in England.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Article
- An Evaluation of the Knowledge and Perceptions of Pharmacy Staff and Pre-Registration Students of E-Cigarettes Use: A Systematic Review.Tobacco use insights · 2021Review
- Association of Socioeconomic Position With e-Cigarette Use Among Individuals Who Quit Smoking in England, 2014 to 2019.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Explaining the social gradient in smoking and cessation: the peril and promise of social mobility.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- Nicotine addiction as a moral problem: Barriers to e-cigarette use for smoking cessation in two working-class areas in Northern England.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Article
- Informed choices for some, but not for others: An exploration of Australian midlife women's participation in mammography screening by social class.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
This paper uses the work of Bourdieu to theorise smoking and cessation through a class lens, showing that the struggle for distinction created the social gradient in smoking, with smoking stigma operating as a proxy for class stigma. This led to increased policy focus on the health of bystanders and children and later also to concerns about electronic cigarettes. Bourdieu's concept of habitus is deployed to argue that the e-cigarette helps middle-class smokers resolve smoking as a symptom of cleft habitus associated with social mobility or particular subcultures. E-cigarette use is also compatible with family responsibility and sociable hedonism; aspects of working-class habitus which map to the 'practical family quitter' and the 'recreational user' respectively. The effectiveness of class stigma in changing health behaviours is contested, as is the usefulness of youth as a category of analysis and hence the relevance of concerns about young people's e-cigarette use outside a class framework of smoking and cessation. With regard to health inequalities, whilst middle-class smokers have in class disgust a stronger incentive to quit than working-class smokers, there is potential for tobacco control to tap into a working-class ethos of family care and responsibility.
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