TY - GEN T1 - Smoking privileges : psychiatry, the mentally ill, and the tobacco industry in America T2 - Critical issues in health and medicine. A1 - Hirshbein, Laura D., 1967- LA - English PP - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn904960161 AB - "Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura 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 century. Hirshbein, 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 sale of cigarettes dwindled, the tobacco industry quietly researched alternative markets, including those who smoked for psychological reasons, ultimately discovering connections between mental states and smoking, and the addictive properties of nicotine. However, Smoking Privileges warns that to see smoking among the mentally ill only in terms of addiction misses how this behavior fits into the broader context of their lives. Cigarettes not only helped structure their relationships with other people, but also have been important objects of attachment. Indeed, even after psychiatric hospitals belatedly instituted smoking bans in the late twentieth century, smoking remained an integral part of life for many seriously ill patients, with implications not only for public health but for the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders. Making matters worse, well-meaning tobacco-control policies have had the unintended consequence of further stigmatizing the mentally ill. A groundbreaking look at a little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges illuminates the intersection of smoking and mental illness, and offers a new perspective on public policy regarding cigarettes"--Provided by publisher OP - 212 CN - RC567 .H56 2015eb SN - 9780813563985 SN - 0813563984 SN - 9781336199545 SN - 1336199547 SN - 9780813563978 SN - 0813563976 SN - 9780813563961 SN - 0813563968 KW - Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie KW - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer : Bitterfeld KW - Mentally ill : Tobacco use : United States : History. KW - Psychiatric hospital patients : Tobacco use : United States : History. KW - Tobacco industry : Moral and ethical aspects : United States. KW - Smoking : Psychological aspects. KW - Attachment behavior. KW - Mentally ill women. KW - Smoking : psychology KW - Persons with Psychiatric Disorders. KW - Object Attachment KW - Tobacco Industry : ethics KW - Tobacco Use Disorder : psychology KW - Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale : Tabagisme : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques : Tabagisme : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - Tabac : Industrie : Aspect moral : États-Unis. KW - Tabagisme : Aspect psychologique. KW - Attachement. KW - Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale. KW - people with psychiatric illnesses. KW - HEALTH & FITNESS : Diseases : General. KW - MEDICAL : Clinical Medicine. KW - MEDICAL : Diseases. KW - MEDICAL : Evidence-Based Medicine. KW - MEDICAL : Internal Medicine. KW - MEDICAL : History. KW - Attachment behavior KW - Smoking : Psychological aspects KW - Tobacco industry : Moral and ethical aspects KW - United States KW - Psychische Störung KW - Rauchen KW - Sozialer Wandel KW - History ER -