Smoking Privileges - 9780813563978

Smoking PrivilegesPsychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America\nAuthor(s): Laura D. Hirshbein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813563978, 978-0813563978\nSynopsis\nCurrent public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much ashalfof the smokers in America. InSmoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last [url] a medical historian and clinical psychiatrist, first shows how cigarettes functioned in the old system of psychiatric care, revealing that mental health providers long ago noted the important role of cigarettes within treatment settings and the strong attachment of many mentally ill individuals to their cigarettes. Hirshbein also relates how, as the s.