Exception to the rule

I FEEL sorry for psychiatric patients who will not be permitted to smoke in the confines of their hospitals once the ban is introduced on January 1.

Exception to the rule
Sat, 25 Oct, 2003 - 01:00

Mental illness is very debilitating.

The effects are sometimes lessened by smoking which, for some patients, is a form of relaxation in an otherwise alien world from which they are retreating in some cases only for a while. Others are not so lucky.

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