Do You Smoke? Stigma, Shame and Blame as Unintended Consequences of Tobacco Control

Behavioral medicine has played a seminal role in the development of multi-level behavior change interventions designed to reduce cancer risk. Most notably, comprehensive, multi-pronged population-level, tobacco control interventions have greatly reduced the appeal and acceptability of smoking, increased smoking cessation, reduced secondhand smoke exposure, and decreased the initiation of cigarette smoking among young people.

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