Gay smoking ad

If you didn't catch it at your local Pride, then -- drumroll, please -- let me introduce you to it now:. This anti-smoking ad warns teens that smoking is gay. Fake PSA Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launch an anti-smoking effort with a video ad that uses the tagline "It's Gay to Smoke"?.

This is acknowledgement of the LGBT community's history of difficulties with the health care system. For all my efforts I wasn't even able to protect my own kids from the dangers of tobacco smoke, dangers that only seem to grow every time people review the science.

We do have a large smoking disparity. CDC just released the first national data, and it showed that LGBT people smoke cigarettes at rates that are nearly percent higher than the general population. Most historians agree that there is evidence of homosexual activity and same-sex love, whether such relationships were accepted or persecuted, in every documented culture.

Already contributed? The problem is that very specific issues have led to a large LGBT smoking disparity, and one-size-fits-all solutions don't fix it. It's acknowledgement of our smoking disparity. This was not a genuine public service announcement (PSA) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but it was a satirical publication from T.

In mid-Aprila TikTok video purported to show an anti-smoking PSA that said, "It's gay to smoke." The end of the clip claimed: "Brought to you by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and. I'm having no luck on my own. Yesterday I got the email I'd been waiting on for years.

It's a brutal reminder of the LGBT tobacco disparity when you spend all day urging states to tailor tobacco control programs for the LGBT communities, and then you go pick up your kids and smell smoke on their clothes. STORY UPDATED: check for updates below. We pay more attention when something is speaking to us.

The Centers for Disease

Alice isn't a problem; she's a great woman and a great mother to the kids, and she really wants to quit smoking. The "it's gay to smoke" video in question, purportedly from the CDC, had been viewed more on TikTok in a week than on YouTube in 10 years. We're around to help provide resources to the local LGBT tobacco control programs and urge the states to include LGBT people in their broader tobacco control work.

Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes. This report documents the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in secondary school. For years I've been using Alice's story as an example of how LGBT people are not being reached by mainstream cessation strategies.

As they rolled out this historically large, national smoking cessation campaign, CDC listened to us and made sure that they tailored a Pride ad just for LGBT smokers. It details widespread bullying and. It's acknowledgement that CDC knows that we scan to find out if things are safe.

We've been targeted by the tobacco industry, we're extremely likely to seek social acceptance as we come out, and the pressures of stigma can nudge anyone toward unhealthy behaviors. I can't even describe to you how much this small ad means to me. I'd stand in front of a bunch of representatives from some state department of health or another, and I'd wind up the example with the warning, "I'll leave this arena the day that Alice finally quits smoking.

Last time they did, the Surgeon General said, "If you just pass a cigarette once, I frankly can't promise you it won't give you cancer. Most gay men are at least slightly less masculine in their thoughts and feelings, and most are drawn to at least some things that are traditionally geared towards females.

It's very likely that smoking is the single greatest health issue stealing years off the lives of LGBT people.

Log in to hide these messages. It was Alice, my ex and the mother of my children, asking, "Hey which smoking cessation do you think is best? Why do LGBT people smoke so much?