By Laura D. Hirshbein
Present public health and wellbeing literature means that the mentally ailing could signify as a lot as half of the people who smoke in the USA. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the advanced challenge of mentally in poor health people who smoke, putting it within the context of adjustments in psychiatry, within the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and within the event of psychological ailment over the past century.
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By the 1960s and 1970s, most public attention outside psychiatric hospitals regarding smoking was focused on growing concerns about health effects. Within mental- health settings, the ubiquity of cigarettes was increasingly visible—but the issue was not health. Instead, smoking became a key symbol of both the potential and the problem of psychiatric institutions during those decades of social and cultural upheaval. And while smoking was an element of normal social behavior at the time, psychiatric patients often had a unique relationship to their cigarettes that was a direct result of their illness.
New York writer Eric Hodgins described 26 Smoking Privileges his irritation with many nurses who tried to save him by preaching about the evils of tobacco (evils of which he was well aware, since he became mentally ill after a stroke that he acknowledged was probably connected to his smoking). Hodgins was grateful and enthusiastic about a nurse who said she wanted to ask him something. He was initially worried, but, “thus did I traduce, on less than fifteen minutes’ acquaintance, the lady who turned my life around and made it go again—in short, who saved it.
But sometimes descriptions of smoking issues revealed problems. For example, attendants were the ones who were responsible for physical management— including restraint—of difficult patients. A mental-health team in the late 1950s, however, tried to show that attendants could use smoking interactions instead of force to help patients get in control. At the Central Islip State Hospital in Long Island, attendants were “being retrained by the doctors who go up to the ward, pick two or three noisy, deteriorated patients at random and take them to the nurse’s office along with the attendants and they all sit down with coffee and cigarettes.