Kirsten Bell
anthropologist, not the actress.
Papers on nicotine and tobacco
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Online exhibition 'A Carnival of Horrors: Specimen, Spectacle and the Smoker'.
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2020. Cigarette packaging legislation and the smoking subject. In E. Mykhalovskiy, J. Choiniere, P. Armstrong & H. Armstrong (eds), Health Matters: Evidence, Critical Social Science and Health Care in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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2020. Signs, things and packaging: Recovering the material agency of the cigarette packet. Social Studies of Science, 50(1): 30-49.
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2018. The weird and wonderful world of cigarette packaging. Anthroehampton, 12 February.
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2016 (with Rebecca Haines-Saah). Challenging key assumptions embedded in Health Canada’s cigarette packaging legislation: Findings from in-situ interviews with smokers in Vancouver. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 107(6): eS62-eS67.
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2016. Foreword to Simone Dennis's book Smokefree: a Social, Moral and Political Atmosphere. (The book is available for purchase here)
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2016. The social control of tobacco use. In B.M. Huebner (ed), Oxford Bibliographies: Criminology. Available here.
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2015 (with Simone Dennis, Jude Robinson and Roland Moore). Does the hand that controls the cigarette packet rule the smoker? Findings from ethnographic interviews with smokers in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the USA. Social Science and Medicine, 142: 136-144.
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2015 (with Rebecca Haines-Saah and Simone Dennis). A qualitative content analysis of health warning labels on cigarette packaging in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the USA. American Journal of Public Health, 105(2): e61-e69.
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2015 (with Gerry Stimson). Editorial. Nicotine: Science, regulation and policy. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(6): 533-535. See the special issue here.
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2014. Science, policy and the rise of ‘thirdhand smoke’ as a public health issue. Health, Risk & Society, 16(2): 154-170.
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2014. (with Helen Keane) All gates lead to smoking: the ‘gateway theory’, e-cigarettes and the remaking of nicotine. Social Science & Medicine, 119: 45-52.
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2013 (with Simone Dennis). Editorial. Towards a critical anthropology of smoking: Exploring the consequences of tobacco control. Contemporary Drug Problems, 40(1): 3-19. See the special issue here.
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2013. Where there’s smoke there’s fire: Outdoor smoking bans and claims to public space. Contemporary Drug Problems, 40(1): 99-128.
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2013. Whither tobacco studies? Sociology Compass, 7(1): 34-44.
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2013. Tobacco control, harm reduction and the problem of pleasure. Drugs & Alcohol Today, 13(2): 111-118.
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2012. (with Helen Keane) Nicotine control: E-cigarettes, smoking and addiction. International Journal of Drug Policy, 23(3): 242-247.
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2012. Cochrane reviews and the behavioural turn in evidence-based medicine. Health Sociology Review, 21(3): 313-321.
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2012 (with Michele Bowers, Lucy McCullough and Jennifer Bell). Physician advice for smoking cessation in primary care: Time for a paradigm shift? Critical Public Health, 22(1): 9-24.
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2011. Legislating abjection? Secondhand smoke, tobacco control policy and the public’s health. Critical Public Health, 21(1): 49-62.
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2010 (with Lucy McCullough, Amy Salmon and Jennifer Bell). ‘Every space is claimed’: Smokers’ experiences of tobacco denormalisation. Sociology of Health & Illness, 32(6): 1-16.
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2010 (with Amy Salmon, Michele Bowers, Jennifer Bell and Lucy McCullough). Smoking, stigma and tobacco ‘denormalization’: Further reflections on the use of stigma as a public health tool. Social Science & Medicine, 70: 795-799.
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2010 (with Linda Bauld, Lucy McCullough, Lindsay Richardson and Lorraine Greaves). The effectiveness of NHS treatments for smoking cessation. Journal of Public Health, 32(1): 71-82.
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2009 (with Lucy McCullough, Karen Devries, Natasha Jategaonkar, Lorraine Greaves and Lindsay Richardson). Location restrictions on smoking: Assessing their differential impacts and consequences in the workplace. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 100(1): 46-50.