The World of Bereavement
Cultural Perspectives on Death in Families
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Introduction
How does tobacco use really affect the lives of individuals and families? That simple question led us on a long journey of understanding. With the help of 225 smokers and nonsmokers in every corner of America ...
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Conclusion—Beginning the Dialogue
In this final chapter, we will briefly summarize what the participants in our project told us about smoking in the USA; then we will offer some ideas on how people can move toward more openly and honestly comm...
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Marital and Couple Relationships
Tobacco use significantly affects and can determine the shape of all familial relationships. Given the complexity of family relationships and range of family types, we will limit our examination here to how to...
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Anger, Silence, and Secrecy
Silence, or perhaps more accurately, secrecy, is an integral part of any addiction. The very complex issues and emotions on “either side” of the tobacco issue unfortunately often disintegrate into a volatile, ...
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Why Smoke?
People begin to smoke and continue the habit for numerous reasons. While most recall smoking their first cigarette as a young person, especially in adolescence, some do pick up the habit much later in life. Of...
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Parent–Child Relationships
For many smokers, the act of smoking is enough to indict them as bad parents, and many recount instances when subjected to the humiliation and abuse of public indictment. It is difficult for smoking parents wh...
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Personal Rights and the American Way
On both sides of the issue, smokers and nonsmokers alike believe that they have inviolable rights and many invoke the rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement and American Independence in their narratives.
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Lifestyle: The Power of Tobacco Over Our Lives
For both smokers and nonsmokers, tobacco can determine one’s daily activities, livelihood, relationships, and health. Tobacco can determine matters from as important as kee** or losing one’s job to matters a...
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Quitting
Although quite a few smokers deny that they might be addicted to tobacco, claiming they can quit if they want to, most of the smokers in our study and many who have attempted to quit are quick to admit addicti...
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Health
Many smokers, especially those who don’t want to quit, feel like they are the healthiest people they know; they justify their self-diagnoses, attributing any health problems, if they exist, to age. Frequently ...
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Implementing a Strengths-Based Approach to Intimate Partner Violence Worldwide
Family violence is a core social issue in every country around the world. The extent and consequence of family violence as a major problem has received increased attention around the world. The focus of the pr...
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Financial Management Practices of Couples with Great Marriages
The purpose of this qualitative study was to learn about financial management practices of 64 self-selected couples from throughout the United States who believe they have great marriages. Three themes emerged...
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The Process of Transcending a Traumatic Childhood
This study used a qualitative, exploratory approach to develop a conceptual framework that illustrated the process by which spirituality emerged as one of the processes that helped people transcend a traumatic...
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Contemporary Family Patterns and Relationships
When Americans refer to traditional family values and dynamics, they commonly extol the virtues of lifelong marriage with children. Tradition in our culture holds that (1) being married is better than being si...
