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Decreasing Smoking but Increasing Stigma? Anti-tobacco Campaigns, Public Health, and Cancer Care
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Public health researchers, mental health clinicians, philosophers, and medical ethicists have questioned whether the public health benefits of large-scale anti-tobacco campaigns are justified in light of the potential for exacerbating stigma toward patients diagnosed with lung cancer. Although there is strong evidence for the public health benefits of anti-tobacco campaigns, there is a growing appreciation for the need to better attend to the unintended consequence of lung cancer stigma. We argue that there is an ethical burden for creators of public health campaigns to consider lung cancer stigma in the development and dissemination of hard-hitting anti-tobacco campaigns. We also contend that health care professionals have an ethical responsibility to try to mitigate stigmatizing messages of public health campaigns with empathic patient-clinician communication during clinical encounters.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Riley, K. E., Ulrich, M. R., Hamann, H. A., & Ostroff, J. S.
- Affiliations
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- Boston University (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Venue
- AMA Journal of Ethics
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2017-05-01
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 475-485
- ISSN
- 1937-7010 (ISSN-L)
- 2376-6980
- PMC
- PMC5679230
- OpenAlex
- W2613943031
- Cited by
- 104
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 7
- FWCI
- 6.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The AMA Journal of Ethic (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- bepress Legal Repository (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Funders
- National Lung Cancer Partnership
- Lung Cancer Research Foundation
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (T32CA009461)
- National Cancer Institute (R03CA193986, R03CA154016, P30CA008748, T32CA009461)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Public Health Policies and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Keywords
- anti-smoking campaigns, public health ethics, patient-clinician communication, empathic communication, tobacco control, health care ethics
- MeSH terms
- Smoking Prevention, Advertising, Health Promotion, Humans, Neoplasms, Smoking, Nicotiana, Social Stigma
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