"Gotta light?": Canadian women's cigarette smoking as a social and communicative activity

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dc.contributor.authorShivel, Mary M.
dc.contributor.supervisorPrince, Michael J.
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-28T18:06:58Z
dc.date.available2025-02-28T18:06:58Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.degree.departmentFaculty of Human and Social Development
dc.description.abstractSmoking research has focused on the incidence and public health issues associated with smoking or on the deficiencies of the individual smoker. This thesis examines women smokers' experiences of cigarette smoking in face-to-face interactions, that is the overt actions, verbal and non-verbal, that create the behaviour. Seventeen women smokers and five ex-smokers ages 19 to 53 provided the data through in-depth interviews about their smoking interactions. Smokers' perceptions of non-smokers' views of them was also examined. Feminist thinking informed the analysis of the participants' narratives. The complexity of the communicative interactions inextricably tied to cigarette smoking reveal an appealing, supportive side to smoking that extends beyond what is presently discussed in the literature. For public policy and practice my goal is to link the personal experiences of these women smokers with a prevention and/or cessation program.
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21374
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Web
dc.title"Gotta light?": Canadian women's cigarette smoking as a social and communicative activity
dc.typeThesis

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