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l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 83, Number 1, 41-7, Janvier 2007, Question ouverte

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Author(s) : Cyrille Bouvet

Summary : Smoking and psychiatryCigarette smoking in psychiatry, both heavy and widespread, goes against current French social and legal obligations. Any tolerance of smoking in psychiatry is problematic when one compares the acknowledged pathogenic effects of tobacco with psychiatry’s healing mission. This article reviews the situation in France while drawing on foreign research, and questions psychiatrists’ arguments used to counter the anti-smoking lobby. The author shows how the anti-smoking campaign is necessary in psychiatry, at the same time describing certain difficulties it comes up against outside of the strict context of the anti-smoking strategy.

Keywords : nicotine addiction, institution, care, psychiatry, smoking