Smoke free hospitals

doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7396.941

BMJ 2003;326:941-942 ( 3 May )

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Smoke free hospitals

An achievable objective bringing benefits for patients and staff

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The Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast has often been in the media spotlight, attracting praise for the way it responded tothree decades of intercommunal violence in Northern Ireland. Somerecent news coverage was not, however, quite so positive. Thehospital is nearing completion of a major new building development,and the BBC revealed how the hospital's management had decidedto establish seven smoking rooms for patients and staff in itat a cost of £500 000 ($787 000; 723 000).¹ The decision immediatelyprovoked condemnation from many sources. Dr Joe Hendron, a memberof the Northern Ireland assembly and also a local general practitioner,argued that the move sent out the wrong signal at a time whenhealth services should be encouraging people to stop smoking andAndrew Dougal, of the Northern Ireland Chest, Heart, and StrokeAssociation condemned the "abject failure" of the hospital topersuade people to quit smoking. Hospital . . . [Full text of this article]

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