Mental Health Advocates Push Back on Proposed Smoking Ban at Ventura County Medical Center
Mental health advocates are pushing for an exception to a proposed campus-wide smoking ban on the Ventura County Medical Center grounds. The county affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness argues that patients held involuntarily at the Hillmont Psychiatric Center should not be forced to quit smoking while in crisis.
- "Smoking Ban at Ventura Psychiatric Unit Called Unfair to Mentally Ill Patients" (Wilson, Ventura County Star, 7/30).