Smoking parents: what do their children think?

Authors

  • Ana Maria Cavalcanti Lefèvre Instituto de Pesquisa do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo
  • Isabel Maria Bicudo Pereira Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Saúde Pública
  • Neusa Guaraciaba dos Santos Oliveira Universidade de São Paulo
  • Fernando Lefèvre Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Saúde Pública
  • Glacilda Telles de Menezes Stewien Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Saúde Pública
  • Antonio Pedro Mirra Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Saúde Pública; Registro de Câncer
  • Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni Universidade de São Paulo; EACH

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.19791

Keywords:

Tobaccoism, Passive Smoker, Discourse of the Collective Subject

Abstract

The objective of this research project was to achieve a better understanding of family dynamics in smoking parents' homes. The focus is on the relationship between smoking parents and their children and the central theme is the fact that passive smoking is the third biggest cause of preventable deaths in the world. Forty-one children and 22 adults participated in the study. The methodology involved is the Discourse of the Collective Subject (in Portuguese, DSC), which depicts a quali-quantitative profile. The findings revealed that the children emphasized that smoking parents could lead the children to smoke themselves; however, they do not intend to smoke and the most frequent reason mentioned was fear of illnesses and death. A substantial part of the kids stated that the parents smoke in their presence, which they deeply dislike and resent. But parents say they try not to do it, displaying some awareness of the hazards to the passive smoker. Because the present research is an initial study, with a small sample, the conclusions cannot be generalized to all types of pre-adolescents. However, from a qualitative point of view, the results suggest a broad variety of subjects and sub-subjects to be explored in future research studies.

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2006-08-01

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2006)

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