Houghton Daisy, Houghton Frank
Saint Anne's Community College, Killaloe, Ireland.
Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland.
Tob Prev Cessat. 2020 Jul 3;6:41. doi: 10.18332/tpc/122867. eCollection 2020.
Smoking continues to extract an unacceptably high toll in Ireland in terms of both mortality and morbidity. Therefore, attention needs to focus on examining pro-smoking influences on teenagers and young adults, as most smokers start smoking before the age of 21 years. Given that this critical period is one of identity formation and assertion of adulthood, it is useful to look at media representation of smoking. One form of increasingly pervasive media that may require further examination is that of the portrayal of smoking in graphic novels. The broad appeal of graphic novels has been well noted, particularly to those aged under 35 years.
This research examined a random selection of ten graphic novels chosen from the main library in a provincial Irish City. The novels were examined on a panel-by-panel basis for images of smokers. Smokers were coded by gender.
Analysis identified a total of 526 panels depicting smoking. Substantial variation was noted in the number of smoking images between novels, varying from 0 to 267. A dramatic difference in the number of male to female smokers was observed, the ratio being approximately 17:1.
Graphic novels must be considered as a potentially significant source of portrayals of smoking to adolescent and young adult readers of this form of literature.
在爱尔兰，吸烟在死亡率和发病率方面仍造成高得令人无法接受的代价。因此，需要关注研究支持吸烟的因素对青少年和年轻人的影响，因为大多数吸烟者在21岁之前就开始吸烟了。鉴于这一关键时期是身份形成和成年期确立的阶段之一，研究吸烟在媒体中的呈现是很有必要的。一种可能需要进一步研究的日益普遍的媒体形式是漫画小说中对吸烟的描绘。漫画小说具有广泛的吸引力，这一点已得到充分认可，尤其是对35岁以下的人群。
本研究从爱尔兰一个省级城市的主要图书馆中随机挑选了十本漫画小说进行审查。逐页审查小说中吸烟者的形象，并按性别对吸烟者进行编码。
分析发现共有526页描绘了吸烟场景。不同小说中吸烟画面的数量存在很大差异，从0到267不等。观察到男性吸烟者与女性吸烟者数量存在显著差异，比例约为17:1。
对于阅读此类文学作品的青少年和年轻成年读者而言，漫画小说必须被视为吸烟描绘的一个潜在重要来源。
