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Hiring Bans on Smokers Still Controversial
Healthcare facilities that won't hire smokers may produce better health outcomes overall, but do they challenge medicine's basic tenet to care for all individuals? That was the quandary posed by two opposing Perspective articles online in the New Englan
Mar 28, 2013
MedPage Today
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Mar 29, 2013 10:43
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[UK] HEALTH: No smoke... Royal Free chief packs up
THE top boss of the Royal Free Hospital says he is "less irritable" now that he has quit smoking after 35 years. Chief executive David Sloman said he could now run for a bus and taste food again after benefiting from no smoking sessions free on the NHS.
Mar 28, 2013
Camden New Journal (uk)
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Mar 28, 2013 15:53
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[Lebanon] Health Ministry sends warning to hospitals over smoking ban
Bars and restaurants are not the only establishments having trouble enforcing the smoking ban, as even hospitals are now coming under increased scrutiny after the Health Ministry received several complaints that staff, visitors and even patients were ligh
Mar 28, 2013
Beirut Daily Star (lb)
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Mar 28, 2013 10:06
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[Georgia] Smoking causes fire that kills one at Tucker nursing home
A fire killed a woman in her room at a nursing home in Tucker early Tuesday. According to the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office, the deceased has been identified as Laura Barrett, 64. Barrett was a resident of the Meadowbrook Nursing Home on Lawre
Mar 26, 2013
WGCL-TV CBS 46 (Atlanta, GA)
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Mar 26, 2013 14:05
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[UK-Scotland] Smoke ban in hospital grounds ($$)
NHS grounds are to be completely smoke-free within two years, the Scottish government has pledged. The move will ban patients, visitors and staff from smoking around places such as hospitals. It builds on the smoking ban in public places imposed seven y
Mar 25, 2013
Times Of London (uk)
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Mar 24, 2013 23:36
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[UK-Scotland] Scottish NHS grounds to be smoke-free by 2015, says Alex Neil
NHS grounds are to be completely smoke-free within two years, the Scottish Government has pledged. The move will ban patients, visitors and staff from smoking around places like hospitals.
Mar 24, 2013
Herald Scotland (The Herald and Sunday Herald) (uk)
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Mar 24, 2013 16:36
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[Wyoming] Amend or repeal - Casper discusses smoking ban
The Casper City Council, on a 5-4 vote, decided March 19 to continue preparations to amend the city’s five-month-old smoking ban. ... Hedquist told the council he had surveyed his constituents in Ward II and found 55 percent wanted the ban left in place
Mar 19, 2013
Casper (WY) Journal
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Mar 19, 2013 01:22
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[North Carolina] Vidant sidewalk smokers beware
Pitt County Board of Health members decided last week that they want to see smoking ended in many public areas throughout the county, beginning with the sidewalks around Vidant Medical Center. At a Tuesday meeting, the nine-member board discussed how t
Mar 17, 2013
Greenville (NC) Daily Reflector
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Mar 17, 2013 13:39
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[Saudi Arabia] LETTER: Smoking ban
This is in response to the story “19 clinics shut down in Riyadh.” The government should also strictly ban people from smoking around the medical facilities and near pharmacies as it is a serious health hazard. This is what happens during prayer times.
Mar 15, 2013
Arab News (sa)
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Mar 16, 2013 12:43
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[UK] LETTER: Disgusting smoking policy operates near Scunthorpe General Hospital
AFTER having to visit my father-in-law over the last 10 days in Scunthorpe Hospital I am absolutely disgusted with its smoking policy. It clearly states smoking is not allowed in the hospital grounds, so why do you have to walk through a giant ashtray t
Mar 14, 2013
Scunthorpe Telegraph (uk)
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Mar 14, 2013 14:29