OCR A LEVEL Sociology Paper 1 H580-01 Socialisation, Culture and Identity May 2022 QUESTION PAPER QP

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When smoking was cool, cheap, legal and socially acceptable In 1950s America, cigarette smoking was seen as cool and glamorous. Hollywood icons such as James Dean and Humphrey Bogart were never with... out a cigarette. Screen beauties such as Audrey Hepburn made smoking look sensual and sophisticated. Even a future president – Ronald Reagan – was handed free packs of Chesterfield cigarettes in his early acting days. By the late 1950s around half of the population of industrialised nations smoked – in the UK up to 80% of adults were hooked. The product was cheap, legal and socially acceptable. Fast-forward 50 years and the picture is very different. Since 1995 there have been a number of laws to restrict or ban smoking. By 2005 less than a quarter of the US population smoked cigarettes. In the UK today it is estimated that the proportion of the population who are smokers is 15%. [Show More]

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