Well your post said it all for me Gadphil. The arrogance flows from your keyboard like a river.

I rest my case.

I have met a mental health Doctor who was as irrational as a cut snake & more danger to his patients than a help & also I'm acquainted with two male mental health nurses who appear to aspire to the Doctors level of competence.
From what I have witnessed mental health is a far bigger problem from those who think they're doing something about it than those who suffer from it.

Antismoking has again been manufactured into a societal “ideal” by physicians playing social engineers, i.e., eugenics, and has been taken up by government health bureaucracies. They have learned nothing from their destructive eugenics quests of early-1900s USA and Nazi Germany. When health is erroneously reduced to only a biological phenomenon, an assault on other dimensions (psychological, relational) of health will occur. One would think that alarm bells would be ringing with this antismoking circumstance in, particularly, mental facilities given the long history of abuse of mental patients by officialdom. Alarm bells may be ringing, but there seem to be few that can hear them. As soon as medical administrators embark on “ideological” quests such as antismoking, only catastrophe can ensue. These antismoking measures are coercion to conformity. All must be made to bend to the medical will.

And it is not just patients in mental facilities. Over the last three decades, smoking/smokers have been denormalized/stigmatized; they have been slandered to high heaven. Smoking has been banned indoors. There is now an attempt to ban smoking outdoors. Those who smoke have been denied employment, access to medical treatment, and access to housing. Antismoking has deteriorated into a bigotry frenzy or a bigotry bandwagon effect – as it has in the past. In that this insanity has been “legitimized” by the medical establishment, all detrimental consequences are iatrogenic.

Antismoking is not new. It has a long, sordid – even murderous (e.g., King Murad) – history, where much of it pre-dates even the pretense of a scientific basis or the concocted idea of secondhand smoke “danger”.

There were concurrent anti-tobacco and anti-alcohol “crusades” in early-1900s USA. These crusades led to a temporary ban on the sale of tobacco in some states and smoking restrictions in most states, and eventually Prohibition immediately following WWI.
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1981/2/1981_2_94_print.shtml

Pushed by the Eugenics and Temperance Movements, antismoking (and anti-alcohol) was viewed as in the interests of a “healthier” society. Rather, this fake “purity” promoted irrational fear, hatred, and social division: It brought out the worst in the human disposition. Baseless, inflammatory claims were made as a matter of course by so-called “authorities” and “experts”.

Anti-tobacco/alcohol reared their heads in pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany, again as a point of the eugenics framework.
http://www.bmj.com/archive/7070nd2.htm

It is important to note that the Nazis didn’t invent eugenics. It was popularized in America. German eugenicists (and Hitler) were students of American eugenics.

The contemporary antismoking “crusade” has been produced by the same eugenics personnel – physicians, biologists, zoologists, pharmacologists, statisticians, behaviorists – continuing the eugenics obsession with anti-tobacco. Health reduced to only biology is the eugenics framework and the aggressive peddling of the definition with a view to societal change (social engineering) is very much the fascism/statism of the eugenics mentality. It is the eugenics mentality that dominates health bureaucracies that has made antismoking a societal ideal.

The current antismoking crusade was put into motion in the mid-1970s under the auspices of the UN agency, the World Health Organization (see Godber/WHO Blueprint www.rampant-antismoking.com ). Rather than ban the sale of tobacco, the goal this time has been to ban smoking in essentially all the places where people would typically smoke. Indoor and outdoor bans were planned years before even the first study on secondhand smoke.

Some more on antismoking propaganda.

The official line is that there are no benefits in smoking which is only an addiction. This is an erroneous view that was peddled by the Temperance Movement in the 1800s and that was also picked up by the Eugenics Movement of early last century. Given the unfounded belief that there are no benefits in smoking, the question then becomes why people then continue to smoke. The eugenicists (physicalists) “resolve” this question by claiming that the entire behavior is held together by “nicotine addiction”.

Post WWII, nicotine was not considered an addiction. Nicotine was re-defined, contrary to available evidence, as “addictive” by US Surgeon-General C. Everett Koop in 1988 and very much in line with the eugenics view. The Office of the Surgeon-General had long been aligned to antismoking and a “smokefree” society.

It was also defined so in 1994 by an “expert panel” very much aligned to antismoking.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14319381.300-us-ruling-turns-smokers-into-junkies.html

Some of the benefits of smoking:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414766
http://dengulenegl.dk/English/Nicotine.html
Just nicotine is a cognitive enhancer. It aids focus. It is not surprising that some of the more profound intellectuals, writers and artists of the last century were smokers.

The latest that smoking is a habit, not an addiction:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100713144920.htm

Nicotine is not peculiar to tobacco. There are small quantities in potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers, egg plant, and black tea.:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/329/6/437

Nicotine is also a precursor of nicotinic acid, also known as niacin or vitamin B3 (NIcotinic ACid vitamIN).

Smoking has numerous aspects – psychological, pharmacological, perceptual, behavioral, social. People smoke for different reasons at different times. Nicotine – just one aspect of smoking – is mild in effect, on a par with caffeine.

There are two main, interconnected reasons for the “nicotine addiction” myth. Firstly, it serves the deranged antismoking goal of a smokefree world legitimized by a eugenics framework. Smoking is depicted as useless, maintained only by nicotine addiction and where “addiction” is intended in the most derogatory sense of the term. This fosters the idea that smokers are reckless, “intoxicated”, irrational, irresponsible persons. And it is intended to create outrage in particularly nonsmokers. Nonsmokers who allow themselves to be brainwashed by the propaganda then demand protection from irresponsible “addicts”. Even more perverse is the claim that nicotine is “more addictive” than heroin or cocaine. Such irresponsible, agenda-driven statements trivialize what are profound differences between these substances.

Secondly, the nicotine addiction myth also serves the pharmaceutical cartel. By depicting smoking as due only to nicotine addiction, the pharmaceutical cartel has been able to peddle its nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) as the major/only means of quitting smoking. It was fully expected, according to the nicotine addiction model, that people would simply put on a nicotine patch and they would quit smoking. But it doesn’t quite work that way.

Yet, the success rate of NRT at one year is 3+% above a 3+% placebo baseline. At one year, NRT has a failure rate of ~97%. At two years, it is even closer to a 100% failure rate. This further and greatly undermines the “nicotine addiction” model.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/338/apr29_1/b1730?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=smoking&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT

The pharmaceutical cartel pushes for smoking bans and increased taxes on tobacco by funding antismoking groups. The medical establishment also peddles these essentially useless products. When bans and increased taxes are instituted there is an increase in NRT sales.
http://news.scotsman.com/tobacco/Nicotine-patch-sales-rocket-in.2766561.jp
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/bonanza-for-nicotine-gum-and-patches-as-millions-try-to-quit-456426.html
http://www.brudirect.com/index.php/2010120134492/Local-News/nrt-products-in-demand-since-cigarette-price-hike-says-jpmc.html

Knowing that these products are essentially useless, BP has even managed to weasel these products onto taxpayer-funded Pharmaceutical Benefits Schemes, e.g., Australia, Canada, where they are handed out like candy, making even more profits for BP. Worse still, BP has also been allowed to peddle the dangerous drug Champix/Chantix.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/01/birmingham_court_to_oversee_pf.html
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/chantix/chantix-suicide-side-effects-57-15821.html
http://www.bnet.com/blog/drug-business/reports-of-psychotic-violence-on-anti-smoking-drug-chantix-pile-up-but-pfizer-isn-8217t-seeing-them/5163

While it is aware of these serious problems, BP is peddling this drug in Japan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/business/global/04smoke.html?_r=1&src=busl