Deck 16: Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Smoking Ban

Question 1

Recent suggests that all of the following are related negatively to smoking tobacco EXCEPT

A) occupation.
B) gender.
C) education.
D) family income.

Answer 1

gender.

Question 2

Tuggle and Holmes argue that the ability to define and construct reality is closely connected to the following

A) social attitudes and degree of consensus within society.
B) collective religious attitudes toward god.
C) political ideology and conservative values.
D) the power structure of society.

Answer 2

the power structure of society.

Question 3

When Tuggle and Holmes refer to the "status politics of cigarette smoking" they are referring to all of the following EXCEPT

A) moral and political entrepreneurs who have successfully defined smoking tobacco as deviant behavior.
B) targeting of working class lifestyle for its unhealthy, deviant behaviors.
C) a lack of conclusive scientific evidence for smoking as a health hazard
D) moral demarcation of the divergent lifestyles of the smoker and the nonsmoker.

Answer 3

a lack of conclusive scientific evidence for smoking as a health hazard

Question 4

Tuggle and Holmes report the following findings in their research study of Shasta County, CA

A) smoking tobacco has always been popular among the power elites of American society.
B) different patterns of smoking based on gender roles and gender stratification within society.
C) viewpoints of moral entrepreneurs and status quo defenders reflected different classes/interests.
D) smoking tobacco is a major way in which teenagers symbolically rebel against family and society.

Question 5

One argument presented by defenders of the status quo in Shasta County was

A) infringement on individual rights.
B) the right of consumers to the safeguards of the U.S. Product and Safety Commission.
C) infringement on rights of small business owners to a profit.
D) the right of deviant groups to the right of public assembly.

Question 6

Although health was the primary concern of moral entrepreneurs in Shasta County, CA, they also expressed all of the following negative comments EXCEPT

A) "smoke stinks".
B) "smoking is no longer an acceptable action".
C) "smoking is a dirty and annoying habit".
D) 'smoking is a major source of livelihood for southern states like Kentucky and the Carolinas".

Question 7

Discuss the moral-political dynamics underlying the definition of deviant behaviors in the efforts to ban smoking in public places.

Question 8

Describe and discuss Tuggle and Holmes's findings on status based politics based on their case study of Shasta County, CA.

Question 9

Relate the social characteristics of those who smoke to the argument that the ban on smoking is about the control of lower status persons with groups with power.