Smoke-free policies in psychiatric hospitals need resources

Smoke free hospitals.

Do We Need Psychiatric Hospitals?

to follow their predecessors into the rigid acceptance of what was thought to be right. The provision of total community care without any in-patient facilities might eliminate most of the dangers and disadvantages of hospital care. Stigma should be reduced, since people would not 'go away'. Problems would have to be solved in the situation in which they occurred and treatment tried out in reali...

Are smoke-free policies good for business?

Smoke-Free Workplace Policies and Organizational Attraction

Companies adopt smoke-free workplace policies to improve health of their employees, but how severely such policies are enforced can have an impact on non-smoking employees as well and can also affect employees' view about their companies. The current study examined the extent to which perceived severity of and organizational support for a smoke-free workplace policy affected employees’ attracti...

Smoke-free policies in New Zealand public tertiary education institutions.

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control mandates the creation of smoke-free environments to protect non-smokers from second-hand smoke and reduce demand for tobacco. We aimed to examine the extent and nature of smoke-free campus policies at tertiary education institutions throughout New Zealand, and examine the policy development process. Stage one comprised an audit and content analysis of...