State Adoption of 100% Smoke-Free Acute Non Federal Hospital Campus Policies

Adam O. Goldstein, Julea Steiner, Anna McCullough, Kathryn D. Kramer and Melva Fager Okun
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Adam O. Goldstein: University of North Carolina, Department of Family Medicine/Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Julea Steiner: University of North Carolina, Department of Family Medicine/Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Anna McCullough: University of North Carolina, Department of Family Medicine/Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Kathryn D. Kramer: University of North Carolina, Department of Family Medicine/Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Melva Fager Okun: Prevention Partners of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA

IJERPH, 2009, vol. 6, issue 11, 1-7

Abstract: To assess the number and percentage of acute care hospitals in the U.S. that have adopted smoke-free hospital campus (SFHC) policies, researchers conducted an assessment from January 2008 to May 2008 of available data on SFHC policy adoption in each state. Slightly more than one third (34.4%) of acute care, non-Federal hospitals had adopted such policies, with wide variation of policy adoption between states.

Keywords: tobacco; hospital; policy; policy diffusion; smoke-free; tobacco-free; hospital campus; secondhand smoke; smoking; cessation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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