| Clark County’s is an advocate who fights against | | | | walk off-site, too. |
| tobacco usage and against the diseases that are | | | | Here are some answers from a patient who will |
| being caused by cigarette smoking. Dr. Alan Melnick | | | | smoke and nothing will make her stop. For example |
| is the ” county Public Health Officer and in January | | | | Sandra Gadberry is 38 and she said that quitting |
| he affirmed in a public hearing that even if you tell | | | | smoking is an insane thing to do. And that people will |
| people how bad is smoking cigarettes for their health | | | | still smoke cigarettes, because when you are trying to |
| or not to smoke so much because in the future they | | | | ban it more it makes you want more not to quit. |
| might have breathing problems they still don’t quit. | | | | |
| Or maybe these arguments might influence a small | | | | But the statistics do not agree with the affirmation of |
| number of smokers. | | | | Sandra Gadberry, they say that 15 percent of |
| That is why a few institutions that have a big role in | | | | Washington adults are smoking at the moment in |
| preventing tobacco smoking have embraced the latest | | | | comparison to 21 percent from 2000 and 18% in 2007. |
| trend: to ban the usage of tobacco anywhere on their | | | | These results were brought by the state Department |
| property. Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center has | | | | of Health. When the taxes for a cigarette pack are |
| banned in January all tobacco. And the same thing is | | | | growing the smokers already think about how much |
| doing now Columbia River Mental Health development | | | | money they might spend on smoking tobacco and it |
| and communications. | | | | makes them think maybe its time to quit smoking. |
| It represents a very big effort to make the | | | | Sandra Gadberry said that Friday is her last day when |
| secondhand smoke be further from nonsmokers and | | | | she will smoke a cigarette and this is because of the |
| make mentally ill patients give up smoking. Stryker | | | | big taxes not because there is a ban on tobacco. She |
| affirmed Friday that it will be a very big challenge but | | | | also said that in the past she had tried a few times to |
| they are prepared for it. But people who are mentally ill | | | | quit smoking but she didn’t have any success. But |
| have a life time period shorter than the rest of the | | | | now maybe she is worried about her health. |
| people, sometimes because of the diseases caused | | | | There was conducted a study and it has discovered |
| by tobacco smoking. | | | | that in 1991 and 1992 people who had mental problems |
| In the metal health clinics were introduced new rules | | | | were more exposed to the risk to start smoking than |
| for its patients, they have walk to the 50 yards of the | | | | those who are healthy. And all of that was happening |
| property to smoke. And patients that have used | | | | because tobacco is like a relaxing medicine to ill people. |
| tobacco from the residential clinic are going to have to | | | | |