Towards a Smoke-Free Society

Every step counts: towards a smoke free society.

Although with some ups and downs, the control of the tobacco epidemic has made some progress over the past years across diVerent countries in Europe. Of course, it is hard to attribute decreased tobacco consumption to a single action, but this process has been parallel to a set of policies resulting in the control of tobacco promotion, more public education, higher taxes (leading to higher cost...

Towards a 100% smoke-free Portugal: no more delays.

Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative

Attitudes towards going smoke-free at an inpatient recovery unit

Background Current national policy in the UK is to make all psychiatric inpatient areas non-smoking by the end of 2018. Methods A mixed qualitative approach, using a survey with a semi-structured format and a World Café method. Discussion This pilot project explored views and experiences of staff and patients in making an inpatient recovery unit a smoke-free zone. A number of issues that were c...

Smoke free hospitals.

Transitions towards a Knowledge Society

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is aiding the transition of society into information society and ultimately knowledge society. Embedded within ICT are the cultural and philosophical undercurrents of the society in which the ICT solutions are developed, currently predominantly the Western culture. The proliferation of ICT is therefore inadvertedly leading to more Westernization of...