Petition · past parliament
Remove the smoking ban from all NHS Mental Health hospitals
Rejected
14 signatures
What the petition asks
When in a mental health crisis, quitting smoking is an unnecessary stress to place on a patient and it may lead to people discharging themselves against medical advice or not seeking help in the first place. My brother suffers from schizophrenia so I have seen first-hand that this is true.
Some patients are at a high risk of absconding from the hospital so the option of supervised smoking breaks outside of the hospital grounds is not an option. My brother was admitted on Sunday, it is now Wednesday and he has not been allowed 1 cigarette during this time. It has been proven that people suffering from mental health use smoking as a way to self-medicate, when someone who is already battling demons is forced to quit so abruptly IT CAN ONLY BE DETRIMENTAL TO THEIR HEALTH & RECOVERY
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 7 Mar 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 12 Mar 2018 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
14
Status
Rejected
Rejected
12 Mar 2018
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.