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Hospital smoking policies: who enforces them?
J A Dalton1, I Swenson, B J Friedman
1University of North Carolina School of Nursing, Chapel Hill.
Hospital Topics
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
As opprobrium is increasingly given to the act of smoking, many institutions--hospitals especially--are seeking to curtail the amount of smoking that occurs within their buildings through various policies. This, however, raises two necessary questions: What does policy enforcement mean? And who shall enforce the rules? The article below discusses the results of a survey of North Carolina hospitals that asked these questions and more.