Banning smoking in the workplace

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7357.174

BMJ 2002;325:174-175 ( 27 July )

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Banning smoking in the workplace

Smoking bans work: so what is the government going to do about it?

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A teaching hospital not a million miles from where I work has, for some years, been considering beefing up its non-smokingpolicy. In the next year a new policy will come into force, whichwill remove dedicated smoking rooms and hopefully discourage smokersfrom lighting up around the entrances to buildings. Moving thisfar has not been easy. The hospital envisages in the next fiveyears moving to a totally smoke free hospital of the kind whichFichtenberg and Glantz (p 188) claim leads some 15% of smokersto give up altogether and others to cut down.¹ Perhaps withthese findings to hand it might manage it in less than five years $---$ orperhapsnot.

The figures from the review¹ are startling and would make workplace smoking bans by far the most effective short term smokingcessation strategy, barring outright prohibition, available toany government. In the United Kingdom, . . . [Full text of this article]

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Effect of smoke-free workplaces on smoking behaviour: systematic review: Caroline M Fichtenberg and Stanton A Glantz
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