Majority of US hospitals will have smoke-free campuses by end of year

Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 01:28 in Mathematics & Economics

WASHINGTON DC, Aug. 20, 2009 -- While hospital buildings are often smoke-free, a new study finds that by February 2008, 45 percent of US hospitals had adopted "smoke-free campus" policies, meaning that all the property owned or leased by the hospital, both indoors and outdoors, was smoke-free and there were no designated smoking areas on those properties.

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