Category Archives: Smoking

Mentally ill, addicted and tobacco: Public views change slowly as clinicians start taking responsibility for smoking cessation

The new frontier in the war against tobacco is special populations, particularly people with mental disorders, including addiction. Unfortunately, an uninformed, paternalistic public view prevails about smokers with schizophrenia or alcoholism, and it goes like this: “Oh, those poor people. … Continue reading

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Some bad news from California: We’re not a smoke-free state

Not too long ago, I was bragging on California in this blog because we have one of the lowest smoking rates in the country, lower than some other states by half. I said that was because California had gone smoke-free … Continue reading

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