"Cloud chasers" and "substitutes": e-cigarettes, vaping subcultures and vaper identities
"Cloud chasers" and "substitutes": e-cigarettes, vaping subcultures and vaper identities
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-9566.12854
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Pedersen, Willy
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作者：
Tokle, Rikke;Pedersen, Willy
电子烟的使用正在增加，这种做法被称为vaping。我们探讨用户的动机，自我认同为vapers和参与vaping亚文化，借鉴污名，亚文化和象征性边界的社会学理论。基于对30名挪威vapers的半结构化访谈的分析，我们发现挪威存在一种vaping亚文化。我们确定了两个主要的电子烟使用者身份。第一种被称为云追逐者。这些都是专门的vapers谁认同的符号和价值观的亚文化。许多人在政治上参与改善电子烟监管制度，并对电子烟社区产生了归属感。第二类是所谓的替代品。这些是以前的日常吸烟者，他们以更务实和防御性的方式使用电子烟戒烟，以避免健康风险，摆脱吸烟的耻辱并管理尼古丁成瘾。在这个群体中，作为一个vaper的自我认同普遍缺乏。Vaping通常象征性地与他们想要逃避的污名化吸烟者身份联系在一起，并且仅限于私人环境。电子烟的象征意义各不相同：对一些人来说，它们是快乐和社区的象征。对其他人来说，它们意味着吸烟成瘾者寻求香烟替代品的耻辱地位。
The use of e-cigarettes is increasing, a practice denoted as vaping. We explore user motives, self-identity as vapers and involvement in vaping subcultures, drawing on sociological theory of stigma, subcultures and symbolic boundaries. Based on analyses of semi-structured interviews with 30 Norwegian vapers, we find that there is a vaping subculture in Norway. We identify two dominant vaper identities. The first is labelled cloud chasers. These were dedicated vapers who identified with symbols and values in the subculture. Many were politically engaged in improving vaping regulation regimes and felt a sense of belonging to a vaping community. The second group is labelled substitutes. These were former daily smokers who used e-cigarettes for smoking cessation in a more pragmatic and defensive manner, to avoid health risks, to escape the stigma of smoking and to manage nicotine addiction. In this group, self-identity as a vaper was generally lacking. Vaping was often symbolically linked to the stigmatised smoker identity they wanted to escape, and was restricted to private contexts. The perceived symbolic meaning of e-cigarettes varies: for some, they are a symbol of pleasure and community. For others, they connote the stigmatised status of the addicted smoker seeking an alternative to cigarettes.