ArticleSociology of health & illness2018
E-cigarettes, vaping and performativity in the context of tobacco denormalisation.
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- Young people's experiences of vaping in their community: a co-created study between embedded researchers and local authority public health practitioners.Perspectives in public health · 2025Review
- Young people's use of disposable vapes: A qualitative study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- A systematic review on risk factors and reasons for e-cigarette use in adolescents.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Review
- Navigating social interactions and constructing vaping social identities: A qualitative exploration with New Zealand young adults who smoke.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Article
- "That's the whole thing about vaping, it's custom tasty goodness": a meta-ethnography of young adults' perceptions and experiences of e-cigarette use.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2021Review
- Inequalities, harm reduction and non-combustible nicotine products: a meta-ethnography of qualitative evidence.BMC public health · 2020Review
- Use of Electronic Cigarettes in Smoke-Free Spaces by Smokers: Results from the 2014-2015 Population Assessment on Tobacco and Health Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Peer crowd-based targeting in E-cigarette advertisements: a qualitative study to inform counter-marketing.BMC public health · 2020Article
- A qualitative study of e-cigarette use among young people in Ireland: Incentives, disincentives, and putative cessation.PloS one · 2020Article
- A qualitative study of e-cigarette emergence and the potential for renormalisation of smoking in UK youth.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- A Practice Theory Approach to Understanding Poly-Tobacco Use in the United States.Critical public health · 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
- Young adult perceptions of JUUL and other pod electronic cigarette devices in California: a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2019Article
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Abstract
E-cigarettes are devices through which a nicotine solution is 'vapourised' and inhaled by the user. Unlike cigarettes, the process involves no tobacco combustion. However, the inhalation and exhalation of vapour is reminiscent of smoking and there is debate about the possible harms and benefits of e-cigarette use, including the 'renormalisation' of smoking. Despite these debates, there has been little exploration into the embodied and semiotic similarities between smoking and vaping. This paper views the practices of vaping and smoking through the lens of performativity that is, the accumulation of meaning associated with the habits over time and space. Through in-depth interviews, we explore how young adults from primarily disadvantaged areas in Scotland, understand the similarity in practices between smoking and vaping. Participants talked about financial barriers to using different types of e-cigarettes, and how their use reflected their views on smoking cessation. They also discussed the embodied similarities between smoking and vaping, with divergent opinions on whether this continuance of habit was beneficial or not, revealing still developing and ambiguous norms around performativity. The norms of vaping were also frequently discussed, with participants' experiences and views reflecting the contested position of vaping in an environment where cigarette smoking is denormalised.
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