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Smoke-Free Mental Health Settings: Exploring The Knowledge, Attitudes And Experience Of Staff, Susan M. Kerr, Beinn Wilson, Kamala Soundararajan, Denise Meldrum, Stephen Lockie
Smoke-Free Mental Health Settings: Exploring The Knowledge, Attitudes And Experience Of Staff, Susan M. Kerr, Beinn Wilson, Kamala Soundararajan, Denise Meldrum, Stephen Lockie
Dr. Susan Kerr
Background
Smoking is 2-3 times more common in people with mental health problems than in the general population. This has serious health implications, with rates of cancer being high and coronary heart disease and respiratory disorders commonplace.
Reducing the prevalence of smoking and tobacco-related harm is central to UK Government policy. The introduction of a ban on smoking in enclosed public places in Scotland in 2006 and in England and Wales in 2007 is a central component of wider tobacco control legislation. One year after the initial legislation was introduced in England and Wales a comprehensive smoke-free policy (i.e. buildings …