New policy of people-first language to replace 'smoker', 'vaper' 'tobacco user' and other behaviour-based labels

Affiliations

• ¹ Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia marita.hefler@menzies.edu.au.
• ² NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia.
• ³ Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁴ Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• ⁵ Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA.
• ⁷ Departamento de Investigacion, Unidad de Cirugia Cardiovascular, Guatemala, Guatemala.
• ⁸ Integra Cancer Institute, Guatemala, Guatemala.
• ⁹ Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹⁰ School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹¹ Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.