title: The status of restrictive smoking policies: a survey of medical schools in the United States and Canada.
abstract: All schools of medicine in the United States (N = 128) and Canada (N = 16) were surveyed by telephone to determine if they had instituted policies to restrict smoking. Some policy restricting smoking was reported by 80.56 percent of US schools (N = 103) and by 93.8 percent of Canadian schools (N = 15). However, only 52.3 percent of US (N = 67) and 56.3 percent of Canadian medical schools (N = 9) indicated they had formal written policy statements. Only 13 percent of US schools and 19 percent of Canadian schools had banned smoking totally.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Health Resource Program, Baltimore, MD 21205.
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Stillman
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006801:Humans; D011640:Public Policy; D012577:Schools, Medical; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014481:United States