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A Step Closer

Thomas E. Kottke, MD, MSPH

JAMA. 1995;274(6):503-504.

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When he was surgeon general, C. Everett Koop challenged the United States to adopt a smoke-free society by the year 2000.¹ The two articles on smoking in hospitals that appear in this issue of JAMA demonstrate that the US health care industry has almost achieved this goal.^2,3 However, both surveys report that smoking in psychiatry and chemical dependency programs remains a problem. Because smoking kills these patients, too,⁴ and smoking can be treated in chemical dependency programs without compromising abstinence rates from other addictive substances,⁵ smoke-free must become the industry standard for all treatment units.

Should it surprise us that three decades have elapsed since the first surgeon general's report on smoking and health,⁶ two decades have elapsed since the concept of the smoke-free hospital was advocated in print,⁷ and it's been a decade since the surgeon general concluded that environmental tobacco smoke kills? . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Reprints not available.

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