Tobacco Institute
Hosp Smoking Policies
Fields
- Type
- MEMO
- Alias
- TIMS0020159 - TIMS0020160
- Site
- CB2574
- TI Storage Box 5630
- Recipient
- Jacobson, P.
- Copied
- Minshew, G.
- Date Loaded
- 18 May 1999
- Ending Date
- No date
- Request
- Msag7-7.D.2
- Litigation
- Mississippi AG
- Author
- Morris, R.
- Characteristic
- CONFIDENTIAL
- UCSF Legacy ID
- cqc32f00
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Paul Jacobson
FROM: Ron Morris
DATE: July 10, 1991
RE: Hospital Smoking Policies
,
As you know, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has
declared all hospitals will be smoke free by January, 1992. Our office has had a number
of inquires from nurses and doctors seeking assistance to prevent this ban.
One of our local tobacco distributors, Stu Grossman, is a member of the local Joint
Hospital Board. He has furnished us with some information from the JCAHO's Public
Relations Division. Diana Avedon has also furnished us with an update of state laws
regarding smoking in hospitals. Both pieces of information are attached.
It seems to us that if an accreditation policy is to be valued they must be universally and
uniformly applied. As you can see from Diana's work a number of state laws prohibit
banning of smoking in hospitals. Therefore, JCAHO is requiring some hospitals to break
state law in order to receive accreditation for Medicare/Medicaid payments.
If you are able to use the information Diana has furnished us in a discreet manner we
may be able to undermine the anti-tobacco movement in hospitals at least as an
accreditation effort.
R.C.M.
RCM/sfd
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