{"id":9635,"date":"2010-06-11T20:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/06\/increasing-smoking-amongst-women-india-3-world-0\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T20:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:46:27","slug":"increasing-smoking-amongst-women-india-3-world-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/06\/increasing-smoking-amongst-women-india-3-world-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing smoking amongst women in India: #3 in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Smoking is a habit that hits directly at a person\u2019s basic living system \u2013 the lungs. Its been a rather manly thing to smoke. Over the years, the tobacco companies had perfected the art of targeting the men with macho ads associated with smoking (Marlboro etc.).<\/p>\n

But in the recent years, as the campaign against smoking has intensified, incidently the habit has gained currency amongst the women. This has also coincided with the rise of women in business and economy as well as their relative liberalization versus their predecessors.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when a woman wants to assert her freedom in today\u2019s world, she wants to emulate all the wrongs that man perpetuates in this world. Instead of showing a new path, an \u201ceducated and lliberal\u201d woman\u2019s psyche and definition of power, freedom and expression is tied to man\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

\"\"A news report came in recently which said that India is #3 in the number of women smokers (1 crore female smokers) in the world after US and China. The increased smoking hurts the women health \u2013 which in any case, is not a subject of focus with most administrators of the world. According to a study, women smokers in India die an average of eight years earlier than their nonsmoking peers.<\/p>\n

For a long time, smoking amongst women has been related to lack of morals. Whenever a woman is depicted as a vamp or an adultress in the movies or media, she is shown smoking. But the new adopters over the past century have changed that view.<\/p>\n

Smoking in public has for a long time been something reserved for men and when done by women has been associated with promiscuity. In Japan during the Edo period, prostitutes and their clients would often approach one another under the guise of offering a smoke and the same was true for 19th century Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These days, as the society becomes more prosperous and taken on Western mores, it slowly takes on the unhealthy habits as well. More and more people adapt to non-vegetarian diet instead of vegetarian one \u2013 which hurts both health of people as well as the environment (for example, It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just one pound of meat, and even fish on fish farms must be fed 5 pounds of wild-caught fish to produce one pound of farmed fish flesh). And more and more people, specially women taken up smoking.<\/p>\n

Advertisers and tobacco companies have also worked very hard at hooking women to this habit through innovatively sinister campaigns. Virginia Slims, for example, has singularly been instrumental in creating the niche of women smoking and deepening the pockets of many tobacco companies around the world as the new market developed.<\/p>\n

Virginia Slims is a brand of cigarette manufactured by Philip Morris. The brand was introduced in 1968 and marketed to young professional women using the slogan \u201cYou\u2019ve come a long way, baby.\u201d Some media watch groups considered this campaign to be responsible for a rapid increase in smoking among teenage girls. Later campaigns have used the slogans, \u201cIt\u2019s a woman thing,\u201d in the 1990s, and \u201cFind your voice.\u201d A report by the Surgeon General of the United States has interpreted these marketing strategies as attempting to link smoking \u201cto women\u2019s freedom, emancipation, and empowerment.\u201d This report also tied the increase of smoking among teenage girls to rises in sales of Virginia Slims and other \u201cniche\u201d brands marketed directly to women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whatever succeeds in the \u201cDeveloped world\u201d doesn\u2019t need a lot of push in the \u201cDeveloping world\u201d, if it is associated with lifestyle. So, the advertising and product companies do the \u201chard work\u201d once. They succeed in pushing the lifestyle stuff in developed world, and wait for the other societies to just ape these western societies. That\u2019s what is happening in India, China and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Reference Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

India third on global \u2018female smoking list\u2019<\/a>
\nMap courtesy TobaccoAtlas<\/a>
\nVirginia Slims<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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