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This July all enclosed public places and workplaces in England and Wales will become smoke-free. Under the proposed regulations certain institutions - such as prisons, hospices and secure mental health units - which provide long term residential accommodation, will be exempt. The details are still under discussion, but the exemption will not apply to the 420 acute psychiatric units where people with mental health problems stay for less than six months. Smoking is often the only solace mental health patients have, and patients under section will not be allowed off the ward for a cigarette. This may contravene the Human Rights Act provision for "a private life" and will certainly serve to make acute mental health wards an alien and inhospitable place for distressed smokers, especially those on section.

Current signatories

Sam Malone, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Pete Jordan
• Mark Benewith
• Kim Prior
• Violet Wallbank
• Robert Baillie
• Joan Sleight
• Ian Cole
• Trevor Fairminer
• Linda Curran
• Sally Matthews
• Prof Dixie Dean
• joanna bennett
• jayasree kalathil
• miranda morland
• Chris Heatley
• Michael Charles
• Louise Healey
• Beryl Douglas
• Philippa Willitts
• Becky Vigor
• Becky Derham
• Cheryl Rivers
• Kirstie Tweedy
• Judy Mead
• Joan Langan
• Jill Goble
• una corbett
• Alison Butler
• David Brooks
• Pauline Farrell
• tim buckley
• maggie barrett
• susan lawrence
• Jane Mowat
• Kip Bennett
• Ann Robins
• Ruth Standring
• Renee Tweedy
• Lucy JOhnstone
• Nina Rideout
• Chris Barchard
• KEITH JOHN HALL
• Carole Bressington
• Angela Capes
• Andrew Roberts
• Melissa Matthews
• Tracy Poole
• wankahunt
• Corinna Flight
• Lucy Elizabeth Hill
• Lynda Arkwright
• Andrea J Chee
• Philip d'Ambrumenil
• Suzanne Pearson
• AMY ARKWRIGHT
• Mel Gunasena
• Jenny Baldwin
• Rose Hamilton
• Angela M Hopwood
• Teresa Shaw
• Denise Grimsdell
• ANGELA LOYNES
• Clare Allan
• Sarah Holmes
• patricia breen
• David Miles
• Ceda Loxley
• Liz Hills
• patricia smith
• Diane Morrison
• Fay Musselwhite
• SANDRA WAFER
• Tony Harris
• Gary Stenner
• Reverand Paul Mackendrick
• M. Gordon
• Susan J Foulkes
• Mary Musselwhite
• jayne alcock
• Seaneen Molloy
• Nicola Elvin
• Mardi Bennett
• Sally Priechenfried
• Oriane Messina
• Alan Swinton
• Maureen Eldred
• Robert Lowry
• Sally Vaughan
• Ben Priechenfried
• Louisa Elliston
• Sally Broughton
• JohnFarley
• Gabriel Alexander
• Louise Smith
• Sarah Devlin
• David McGUIRE
• Colin Silcock
• amanda berry
• Will Barnes
• Sarah Fuller
• Eleanor Gough
• toby roberts
• Jane Booth
• Chris Goodban
• kate stevens
• Claire Frear
• naomi hall
• louise garvey
• melanie bewell
• Jason French
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• Eleanor Armitage
• clare robinson
• Dickon Millett
• Jane Bloom
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• andrew bird
• Donna Monroe
• Don Swift
• alex ashurst
• Susan Bloom
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• Liz Pitt
• cathy evason
• kate blackmore
• jainie patel
• Ceri Triskel
• Jacqueline Spicer
• estelle marlow
• simon tarry
• Tracy Moon
• R T Mukherjee
• Kerry Fry
• Sean Smith
• Katharine Adcock
• Saly Stanton
• Robin Crory
• Liane Hubbins
• Petra Conradie
• maria barnard
• Cheryl O'Brien
• Darren Smith
• Rob Britton
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• Claire Bazn-Peters
• Robert Hale
• Ian Graham
• gary smithson
• Gavin MacDonald
• Duncan Melville
• Rachel Scott
• Gail Berry
• Jennifer Westcott
• Christopher J H Lee
• Sue Cranstone
• Mike Todd
• Caroline Freeman
• sarah grabham
• wendy ann scanlon
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• Eleanor Forrest
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• Sue Brewer
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• Grace Jaundrell
• naomi lawrence
• PETER HOWARD