School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada.
Sociol Health Illn. 2013 Jun;35(5):778-92. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01529.x. Epub 2013 Apr 21.
Since the rise of concern about the relationship between smoking and health in the 1950s and 1960s, the tobacco industry has emphasised notions of individual choice to negate the arguments of the public health sector and legitimatise the industry's presence in the marketplace. Central to this notion of individual choice has been the idea that the control of tobacco consumption (including quitting) is a function of will-power and that smokers can quit if they really want to. This article examines the way will-power developed as the centrepiece of debates about smoking consumption and cessation in the 1950s and 1960s.
自 20 世纪 50 年代和 60 年代对吸烟与健康之间关系的担忧出现以来，烟草业一直强调个人选择的概念，以否定公共卫生部门的观点，并使行业在市场上合法化。个人选择的概念的核心是这样一种观点，即控制烟草消费（包括戒烟）是意志力的作用，只要吸烟者真正想戒烟，他们就可以戒烟。本文探讨了意志力在 20 世纪 50 年代和 60 年代关于吸烟和戒烟的辩论中是如何成为核心的。
