HLTHAGE 2L03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Smoking Cessation, Public Health, Nicotine
29 Feb 2020
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Tobacco and the invention of quitting: a history of gender, excess and will-power. Industry emphasized notions of individual choice to negate the arguments of public health. Idea is about quitting and willpower / can quit if they want to. Will power provides a link between the mind and body. Allows the mind with capacity to administer and control the body. Foucault - describes sense of autonomous self as our relation to ourselves. Article examines way of quitting was defined as act of choice governed by will. Emphasis on the idea that smoking wasn"t dangerous, but excessive smoking was. Compared to fatty foods - bad if you eat in large amounts. Masculine ideas like decisiveness and autonomy as a catalyst for smoking cessation. Idea of the autonomous individua with capacity to control itself privileges the male body as the dominant ideal. Cigarette consumption was just to be men.
