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Started by Robert Broughton
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:50
Psychiatric patients less violent when smoking restricted
Author: Robert Broughton
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:50
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:50
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Well, this explains a lot: ----- Psychiatric patients less violent when smoking restricted - BMJ July 16, 2008 Lisa Hitchen Violence and aggressive incidents were cut by almost half when a smoking ban was introduced at one English acute psychiatric hospital. In data yet to be published, but seen by the BMJ, investigators at Harplands Hospital in North Staffordshire examined all recorded episodes of violence and aggression that staff experienced. They compared all incidents a year before the introduction of a smoke-free hospital policy in April 2006 with those in the year after. Harplands, like other hospitals, introduced a partial ban so that staff and patients could still smoke in designated areas outside the hospital. The findings come as the Department of Health introduced a complete ban on smoking in all psychiatric hospitals in England from 1 July. <snip> BMJ 2008;337:a735 -- Bob Broughton http://broughton.ca/ Vancouver, BC, Canada "Given that tobacco is legal, its users are not drug addicts." - Robert Wagner, June 6, 2008
Re: Psychiatric patients less violent when smoking restricted
Author: Bruce Watson
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:48
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:48
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In article <g5lca9$b08$1@venn.venn.bc.ca>, Robert Broughton <rbronews2@broug8hton.ca> wrote: >Well, this explains a lot: Fifty percent of cigarettes are smoked by the mentally ill. Now that doesn't mean 50% of smokers are mentally ill. NYC Mayor Bloomberg says, you either have to be crazy or stupid to smoke. Does that mean the other 50% of cigarettes are smoked by the stupid? Apparently, it does. >----- > >Psychiatric patients less violent when smoking restricted - BMJ >July 16, 2008 > >Lisa Hitchen > >Violence and aggressive incidents were cut by almost half when a smoking ban >was introduced at one English acute psychiatric hospital. > >In data yet to be published, but seen by the BMJ, investigators at Harplands >Hospital in North Staffordshire examined all recorded episodes of violence >and aggression that staff experienced. They compared all incidents a year >before the introduction of a smoke-free hospital policy in April 2006 with >those in the year after. Harplands, like other hospitals, introduced a >partial ban so that staff and patients could still smoke in designated >areas outside the hospital. > >The findings come as the Department of Health introduced a complete ban on >smoking in all psychiatric hospitals in England from 1 July. ><snip> > >BMJ 2008;337:a735 > >-- >Bob Broughton >http://broughton.ca/ >Vancouver, BC, Canada >"Given that tobacco is legal, its users are not drug addicts." >- Robert Wagner, June 6, 2008
Re: Psychiatric patients less violent when smoking restricted
Author: The BIG N
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:04
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:04
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Mincing Babs Broughton <rbrone...@SASHAY.ca> wrote: > Well, this explains a lot: > ----- <snip balderdash> Hooey, ya' silly prancing twit! TBN
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