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SAMC goes totally smoke-free Southwest Alabama Medical Center announced this week that it will become a 100 percent tobacco-free campus. Beginning Tuesday, May 1, smoking or tobacco use of any kind will not be allowed anywhere (inside or outside) on the Southwest Alabama Medical Center campus, including the hospital parking lot and its local medical clinics. Southwest Alabama Medical Center has been smoke free inside its buildings for several years. Prohibiting tobacco use outdoors at the facility will eliminate secondhand smoke exposure to individuals entering and exiting the hospital. Recent research suggests that secondhand smoke exposure, even when experienced outdoors, is more dangerous than previously believed. Secondhand smoke causes 3,000 lung cancer deaths and 35,000 heart disease deaths in adult non-smokers in the U.S. each year. Patients who would like to use nicotine replacement therapy while in the hospital will be supplied patches if ordered by their attending physician. Visitors should plan to use nicotine replacement therapy while on the campus or leave the hospital property to smoke.
If you have additional questions or concerns please contact Kevin Bierschenk, CEO, at (334) 636-4431.
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