Chapter 37 Workplace, Restaurant, And Airline Smoking

Restrictions

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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO)

adopted a standard in 1992 that required all accredited hospitals to adopt a

hospital-wide no-smoking policy.

Nicotine Addiction, p. 173

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A total smoking ban in a large urban teaching hospital resulted in a 40% reduction in

tobacco consumption.

Nicotine Addiction, p. 398

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In the year after a smoking ban was instituted at the Harvard School of Public Health,

27% of the smokers there quit. In smoke-free hospitals, 36% of employees who quit

attribute their decision to the hospital's smoke-free policy.

Archives of Internal Medicine, January 1991, p. 32

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The Mayo Clinic does not permit smoking anywhere on its hospital property, indoors

or out.

JAMA, January 6, 1989, p. 95

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After smoking was prohibited indoors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,

employee smoking prevalence decreased by a quarter, from 22% to 16%. In addition,

the daily number of cigarettes smoked decreased by 25% in employees who

continued to smoke.

JAMA, September 26, 1990, p. 1565

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One year after the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans implemented a no-smoking policy,

employee smoking dropped from 22 to 14%, and of those who continued to smoke,

81% smoked less than eight cigarettes per day.

Chest, May 1990, p. 1198

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