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Clearly, the norms on smoking have changed (Mansnerus, 1988). As of 2004, the Centers for Disease Control estimates that about 21 percent of all Americans were current smokers—more than one out of five (American Cancer Society, 2006). Nearly half of all current smokers will die from doing so. Indeed smoking kills more people annually (about 440,000) than alcohol, car accidents, AIDS, suicide, homicide, and illegal drug use combined. At this rate, tobacco is expected to be the cause of death of 1 billion people in this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century (Mackay, Eriksen, and Shafey, 2006).
While norms state relative positions, some receive more attention in society than others, and these differences often depend on the power of certain groups to enforce their norms over members and other people. Criteria for deviance may depend on the relative power of groups to enforce and extend their norms on others. Social power, then, strongly affects an understanding of why deviance is relative. For example, strong negative attitudes toward suicide, prostitution, homosexuality, and drunkenness, among other acts, have stemmed mainly from the actions of certain conservative church groups (see Greenberg, 1988) and from conservative middle-class norms generally.
Regardless of the process for defining specific acts as deviant, however, social judgments of disvaluement represent a core component of the concept of deviance. This fact presumably explains why some sociologists use the phrase moral differentiation to refer to deviance (Lemert, 1982). Deviance judgments are moral judgments. Subcultures Norms emerge from groups, and different groups are likely to have different norms. A person encounters varying expectations for behavior depending on the group to which he or she belongs.