Smoke free hospitals

An achievable objective bringing benefits for patients and staff

McKee, Martin professor of European public health
Gilmore, Anna research fellow
Novotny, Thomas E director, international programs

¹([email protected])
²([email protected]), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT
³UCSF School of Medicine, 74 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco CA-94105, USA ([email protected])

Competing interests: MM worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital in the early 1980s. TEN is a former US assistant surgeon general, in which role he was involved in negotiations on the framework convention on tobacco control. All authors have received funding from a variety of governmental and intergovernmental agencies for research on tobacco control.

BMJ 326(7396):p 941-942, May 3, 2003.