Habit or addiction: the critical tension in deciding who should enforce hospital smoke-free policies
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Date
2011
Authors
Lawn, Sharon Joy
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Publisher
Canadian Medical Association
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Abstract
Tobacco use is the single most preventable
cause of disease, disability and
death. Most recently, the US Surgeon
General has affirmed that there is no safe level
of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
The adverse affects of smoking and exposure to
tobacco smoke on health pervade multiple areas
of life. For these reasons, many countries have
introduced smoke-free policies in a variety of
community, workplace and service settings.
Hospitals, in particular, are a focus of smoke-free
policy because their primary goal is to promote
health by attending to acute health crises
or serious exacerbations of chronic conditions,
many of which have direct or indirect links to
smoking.
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Public health, Smoking, Policy-making
Citation
Lawn, S., 2011. Habit or addiction: the critical tension in deciding who should enforce hospital smoke-free policies. CMAJ, December 13, 183(18), 2085-2086.