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Smoke screen: an ethnographic study of a cigar shops collective rationalization.

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It is the purpose of this ethnographic study to explain why efforts from the medical establishment, the press, and friends and family are unsuccessful in persuading a group of men at a local cigar shop to stop smoking. I also seek to determine how these ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002 in Journal: Health Commun (Language : eng)

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1. Health Commun. 2002 ;14(2):167-98

Smoke screen: an ethnographic study of a cigar shop's collective rationalization.

DeSantis AD

Department of Communication, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506, USA. addesa01@uky.edu

It is the purpose of this ethnographic study to explain why efforts from the medical establishment, the press, and friends and family are unsuccessful in persuading a group of men at a local cigar shop to stop smoking. I also seek to determine how these men create a linguistic defense shield that, ironically, protects them from the anxiety that such messages are designed to produce. I argue that the regulars at the shop collectively craft and share 6 prosmoking arguments that (a) rebuke the findings of the medical establishment, (b) anesthetize the regulars from the impact of antismoking messages, and (c) relieve cognitive dissonance and anxiety created by the act of smoking. I establish a theoretical foundation for the study, describe how the regulars craft and converge their collective narratives, and detail the 6 collectively created prosmoking narratives most frequently used by the regulars in countering antismoking messages.

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Alan D	DeSantis	AD

Affiliation: Department of Communication, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506, USA. addesa01@uky.edu

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