5 results on '"Antin, Tamar MJ"'
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2. Tobacco Harm Reduction as a Path to Restore Trust in Tobacco Control.
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Antin, Tamar MJ, Hunt, Geoffrey, and Annechino, Rachelle
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Humans ,Tobacco ,Smoking ,Harm Reduction ,Trust ,United States ,Tobacco Products ,harm reduction ,institutional trust ,nicotine and tobacco ,tobacco control ,tobacco prevention ,Drug Abuse (NIDA Only) ,Substance Abuse ,Tobacco Smoke and Health ,Prevention ,3.1 Primary prevention interventions to modify behaviours or promote wellbeing ,3.5 Resources and infrastructure (prevention) ,Cancer ,Toxicology - Abstract
The controversy of tobacco harm reduction in the United States persists despite evidence that an important audience of tobacco prevention and control, i.e., the people who use or are likely to use nicotine and tobacco products, are engaging in practices that may be considered harm reduction. Despite this, a significant proportion of the US tobacco control and prevention field continues to be guided by a precept that there is "no safe tobacco," therefore failing to acknowledge practices that may be used to reduce the harms associated with consuming combustible forms of nicotine and tobacco. In this commentary, we argue that ignoring the potential benefits of harm reduction strategies may unintentionally lead to an erosion of trust in tobacco control among some members of the public. Trust in tobacco control as an institution is crucial for the success of tobacco control efforts. To ensure trust, we must return to our basic principles of doing no harm, developing programs that are responsive to people's experiences, and providing resources in assisting people to reduce the harms that may be associated with practices, such as smoking, which adversely affect health. Only by respecting an individual's priorities can we cultivate trust and develop tobacco prevention efforts that are grounded in the realities of people's lives and responsive to their needs.
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- 2021
3. Substance use among sexual and gender minorities: Association with police discrimination and police mistrust
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Lipperman‐Kreda, Sharon, Wilson, Ida, Hunt, Geoffrey P, Annechino, Rachelle, and Antin, Tamar MJ
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Criminology ,Human Society ,Mental Health ,Clinical Research ,Drug Abuse (NIDA only) ,Prevention ,Substance Misuse ,Good Health and Well Being ,Gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender ,Intersectionality ,Police discrimination ,Stigma ,Substance Use - Abstract
We investigated associations between experiences with police discrimination, police mistrust, and substance use in a convenience sample of 237 sexual and gender minority (SGM) adults in California. In a cross-sectional survey, collected between January 2016 and July 2017, participants reported substance use, lifetime experiences with SGM-related police discrimination, police mistrust, demographics and SGM visibility. In adjusted logistic regression models, we found a positive association between lifetime police discrimination and past-two-week heavy episodic drinking. Police mistrust also was positively associated with past-month marijuana use. Several significant interactions between lifetime police discrimination or police mistrust with other socially stigmatized identities including being African American, insecure housing, and being a gender minority on a few substance use outcomes suggest that effects of police discrimination and mistrust on substance use are stronger among participants with multiple stigmatized identities. Results suggest the importance of policies and interventions that focus on eliminating police discrimination and increasing police legitimacy to reduce risk of substance use among SGM individuals.
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- 2020
4. The “here and now” of youth: the meanings of smoking for sexual and gender minority youth
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Antin, Tamar MJ, Hunt, Geoffrey, and Sanders, Emile
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Health Services and Systems ,Public Health ,Health Sciences ,Tobacco Smoke and Health ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Clinical Research ,Pediatric ,Tobacco ,Prevention ,3.1 Primary prevention interventions to modify behaviours or promote wellbeing ,Prevention of disease and conditions ,and promotion of well-being ,Mental health ,Good Health and Well Being ,Adaptation ,Psychological ,Adult ,Attitude to Health ,Culture ,Defense Mechanisms ,Female ,Humans ,Male ,Motivation ,San Francisco ,Sexual and Gender Minorities ,Social Marginalization ,Tobacco Smoking ,Young Adult ,Public Health and Health Services ,Substance Abuse ,Health services and systems ,Public health - Abstract
BackgroundThe mainstream tobacco field in the USA tends to situate youth as passive, particularly in terms of their susceptibility to industry manipulation and peer pressure. However, failing to acknowledge youths' agency overlooks important meanings youth ascribe to their tobacco use and how those meanings are shaped by the circumstances and structures of their everyday lives.MethodsThis article is based on analysis of 58 in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with sexual and gender minority youth living in the San Francisco Bay area in California. Topics covered in interviews focused on meanings of tobacco in the lives of youth. Interviews lasted approximately 2.5 h and were transcribed verbatim and linked with ATLAS.ti, a qualitative data analysis software. Following qualitative coding, narrative segments were sorted into piles of similarity identified according to principles of pattern-level analysis to interpret to what extent meanings of smoking for young people may operate as forms of resistance, survival, and defense.ResultsAnalysis of our participants' narratives highlights how smoking is connected to what Bucholtz calls the "'here-and-now' of young people's experience, the social and cultural practices through which they shape their worlds" as active agents (Bucholtz, Annu Rev Anthropol31:525-52, 2003.). Specifically, narratives illustrate how smoking signifies "control" in a multitude of ways, including taking control over an oppressor, controlling the effects of exposure to traumatic or day-to-day stress, and exerting control over the physical body in terms of protecting oneself from violence or defending one's mental health.ConclusionsThese findings call into question the universal appropriateness of foundational elements that underlie tobacco control and prevention efforts directed at youth in the USA, specifically the focus on abstinence and future orientation. Implications of these findings for research, prevention, and policy are discussed, emphasizing the risk of furthering health inequities should we fail to acknowledge the "here and now" of youth.
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- 2018
5. Perceptions of E-Cigarettes among Black Youth in California.
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Hess, Catherine A, Antin, Tamar MJ, Annechino, Rachelle, and Hunt, Geoffrey
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Humans ,Smoking ,Perception ,Public Health ,Adolescent ,Adult ,African Americans ,San Francisco ,Female ,Male ,Interviews as Topic ,Young Adult ,Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems ,Black youth ,ENDS ,cultural commodity ,identity ,Toxicology - Abstract
Research suggests that Black youth are less likely to use e-cigarettes than their white counterparts, yet little is known as to why. We examined perceptions of e-cigarettes among Black young adults (ages 18-25) to explore the meanings these youth ascribe to e-cigarettes and the role that identity plays in how these devices are viewed. Analysis of in-depth interviews with 36 Black smokers and non-smokers in the San Francisco Bay Area suggests that Black youth perceive e-cigarettes as serving distinct, yet overlapping roles: a utilitarian function, in that they are recognized as legitimate smoking cessation tools, and a social function, insofar as they serve to mark social identity, specifically a social identity from which our participants disassociated. Participants described e-cigarette users in highly racialized and classed terms and generally expressed disinterest in using e-cigarettes, due in part perhaps to the fact that use of these devices would signal alignment with a middle class, hipster identity. This analysis is discussed within a highly charged political and public health debate about the benefits and harms associated with e-cigarette use.
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- 2017
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