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• Smoke-free policies at American hospitals  

Smokers still huddle outside the doors of more than half of America's hospitals -- and 65 percent of Virginia's -- a new study found.

But the study, published this week in the medical journal Tobacco Control, says more hospitals are moving to having a completely smoke-free campus.

In central Virginia, HCA's Chippenham and Johnston-Willis campuses went tobacco-free -- even banning smokeless tobacco -- last year, said Karen Nelson, executive director for marketing.

In November, HCA's Henrico Doctors', Parham Doctors' and Retreat Doctors' campuses will follow suit. John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell will go tobacco-free sometime after that, Nelson said.

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