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Decreasing Smoking But Increasing Stigma? Anti-Tobacco Campaigns, Public Health, And Cancer Care, Michael Ulrich
Decreasing Smoking But Increasing Stigma? Anti-Tobacco Campaigns, Public Health, And Cancer Care, Michael Ulrich
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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 antitobacco 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 …