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Originally Posted by Lee.
I don't actually agree with this. Like it or not, smokers need to be able to smoke somewhere.
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Neither do I and in fact when I was regularly visiting someone in Hospital,it was as much the staff that were outside smoking as well as Patients.
Until it is actually illegal to smoke in this Country then the open air should be somewhere someone can smoke if they wish to.
Often the hospital grounds are large and to insist that patients who smoke would have to leave the hospital grounds and be some distance from the Hospital building is neither practical or right in my view.
I don't smoke and I understand like many things, it can be harmful to health but it is legal to smoke in the UK so this is again a removal of what should be a right.
Also bearing in mind where the patients may need to have to go for the odd cigarette,it could prove to be a dangerous move too.