Clark Countyâ??s is an advocate who fights against tobacco usage and against the diseases that are being caused by cigarette smoking.  Dr. Alan Melnick is the â? county Public Health Officer and in January he affirmed in a public hearing that even if you tell people how bad is smoking cigarettes for their health or not to smoke so much because in the future they might have breathing problems they still donâ??t quit. Or maybe these arguments might influence a small number of smokers.

That is why a few institutions that have a big role in preventing tobacco smoking have embraced the latest trend: to ban the usage of tobacco anywhere on their property. Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center has banned in January all tobacco. And the same thing is doing now Columbia River Mental Health development and communications.

It represents a very big effort to make the secondhand smoke be further from nonsmokers and make mentally ill patients give up smoking. Stryker affirmed Friday that it will be a very big challenge but they are prepared for it. But people who are mentally ill have a life time period shorter than the rest of the people, sometimes because of the diseases caused by tobacco smoking.

In the metal health clinics were introduced new rules for its patients, they have walk to the 50 yards of the property to smoke. And patients that have used tobacco from the residential clinic are going to have to walk off-site, too.

Here are some answers from a patient who will smoke and nothing will make her stop. For example Sandra Gadberry is 38 and she said that quitting smoking is an insane thing to do. And that people will still smoke cigarettes, because when you are trying to ban it more it makes you want more not to quit.

But the statistics do not agree with the affirmation of Sandra Gadberry, they say that 15 percent of Washington adults are smoking at the moment in comparison to 21 percent from 2000 and 18% in 2007. These results were brought by the state Department of Health. When the taxes for a cigarette pack are growing the smokers already think about how much money they might spend on smoking tobacco and it makes them think maybe its time to quit smoking.

Sandra Gadberry said that Friday is her last day when she will smoke a cigarette and this is because of the big taxes not because there is a ban on tobacco. She also said that in the past she had tried a few times to quit smoking but she didnâ??t have any success. But now maybe she is worried about her health.

There was conducted a study and it has discovered that in 1991 and 1992 people who had mental problems were more exposed to the risk to start smoking than those who are healthy. And all of that was happening because tobacco is like a relaxing medicine to ill people.

Columbia River Mental Health has now other plans to forbid tobacco use and this is referring to those institutions that will allow smoking on their properties.