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Smoking among psychiatric in-patients in Southampton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Claudia Corby  and
Jennifer Barraclough
Claudia Corby
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton SO9 4PE
Jennifer Barraclough
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton SO9 4PE
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Smoking accounts for 15–20% of all British deaths (Royal College of Physicians, 1983). Smoking-related diseases incur considerable cost to the NHS and smokers' materials cause 39% of accidental hospital fires (Batten, 1988).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , June 1992 , pp. 325 - 326
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