The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said relaxing the ban would expose workers to passive smoking.
On Tuesday, the Royal College of Physicians called for the UK to rethink the way it tackles obesity.
According to Royal College of Physicians figures, one in three 15-year-olds admit to having been drunk at least once.
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D, Chair of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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Towards the end of last year the Royal College of Physicians published a report called Hospitals on the edge?
Professor Peter Kopelman of the Royal College of Physicians said he would like to see malnutrition checks become mandatory in English hospitals.
The Royal College of Physicians is among those calling for an independent national commission to advise the government on the way forward.
The American College of Physicians has long recognized the importance of primary care practices providing case management to chronically ill patients.
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The largest coordinated effort to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases was announced at an event at the Royal College of Physicians in London.
But Prof John Britton, chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group, says a ban is necessary to protect children.
The American Cancer Society and the American College of Physicians recommend that adults be screened for colorectal cancer starting at age 50.
Yet the NHS is turning a blind eye and not doing enough to help them to stop, the Royal College of Physicians said.
Dr Charlie Tonson, chairman of the Royal College of Physicians renal medicine committee, said chronic kidney disease was an important public health problem.
Liver disease expert Sir Ian Gilmore, a former president of the Royal College of Physicians, who has long campaigned about alcohol misuse, agreed.
"These guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians provide comprehensive advice on the best care pathways for stroke patients, " it said in a statement.
The Royal College of Physicians has also said there were too few joined up services to help people lose weight in Wales and England.
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) found that during one week, 10% of trainee doctors and 6% of consultants made prescribing mistakes.
Lead researcher Professor Dolores Malaspina, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, said her findings showed "a man has a biological clock too".
The study was run by the same researcher who headed up CATIE: Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians and chair of the UK Alcohol Health Alliance, said he was sceptical the campaign would work.
Professor Nick Finer, who co-authored a recent report on obesity by the Royal College of Physicians, said legislative measures had already worked in other European countries.
You might have expected the hearing to be held at the Scottish Parliament, but in fact the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, will provide the venue.
The warning about the situation in Scotland comes in the editorial written by the president and vice presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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The new immunization schedules have also been approved by medical groups that include the American College of Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
The Royal College of Physicians has warned hospitals are "on the brink" with a mindset developing among staff that many patients are simply in the "wrong place".
Dr Patrick Cadigan, of the Royal College of Physicians, added the problems were also related to the increasingly complex conditions patients, many of them "elderly and frail", have.
The president of the Royal College of Physicians, Sir Richard Thompson, said the findings were a wake-up call to the government to take stronger action on public health.
Two thirds of trainee GPs are women and research by the Royal College of Physicians has found that women GPs will outnumber their male colleagues by 2013.
Much will depend on the view of the working party of the Royal College of Physicians which has been reviewing the College's 2003 guidelines on low awareness states.
Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, was tasked with considering which patient groups should be exempt from charges and how the changes should be implemented.
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