Enforcing no smoking indoors in your workplace?

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I liked the smell of cigarettes before I became a smoker, went off it when I was a smoker, and started to really hate it once I gave up!

I really hated it when I smoked! It didn't stop me though.

 

[Bay Runner]

Calderdale Royal Hospital? I spent 9 days in there in 2012 in a ward on an upper floor, about 50 metres away from the smoking shelter in the car park, and about 20 metres higher. When the wind was blowing the wrong way, the smoke fumes blew across the car park and up into the ward. Given that I was in there suffering from a near-fatal lung problem and was already struggling to breathe, I was less than impressed to have my air polluted by smoke!

One old chap in my ward with a serious smoking-related condition asked a nurse where he could have a smoke. She told him that there was nowhere in the hospital where he could - it is illegal! She told him about the smoking shelter, but he was too ill to get down there. She turned her back for a moment and he opened a window, leaned out of it and lit up. He got a right telling off when she smelled the smoke, turned round and saw what he was doing!

A porter took me in a wheelchair to have a CT scan done and I told him about the old smoker. He laughed and told me that one desperate young smoker got his mates to wheel his bed out of the hospital so he could have a cigarette at the smoking area!

I visited my brother-in-law in a Plymouth Hospice several times before he past away with lung cancer, he smoked too the end.

They had a smoking room in the hospice !!!

 

[ufkacbln]

 

[ColinJ]

I visited my brother-in-law in a Plymouth Hospice several times before he past away with lung cancer, he smoked too the end.

They had a smoking room in the hospice !!!

I suppose once the habit has almost killed you, then there is not a lot of point in trying to give up unless there is hope for survival!

It didn't occur to me at the time, but it might be a good idea for hospitals to routinely offer electronic cigarettes to smokers who desperate for their nicotine fix? It is crazy for people to be getting their beds wheeled out to car park smoking shelters, and absolute madness for people who are very ill to be smoking.

 

[raleighnut]

I suppose once the habit has almost killed you, then there is not a lot of point in trying to give up unless there is hope for survival!

It didn't occur to me at the time, but it might be a good idea for hospitals to routinely offer electronic cigarettes to smokers who desperate for their nicotine fix? It is crazy for people to be getting their beds wheeled out to car park smoking shelters, and absolute madness for people who are very ill to be smoking.

Having stopped smoking to give my broken femur a chance to heal after the second intermedullary nail operation I'd switched to an e-vape only to be told that they are not allowed in hospitals as their effects had not been medically tested. I complained and was then shipped off to a side room where my use of one could be ignored.
It was the nurses who smoked that were peeved as they are not allowed to use them and reported me to 'Matron' (a fella) who simply stated that e-cigarettes of any type were banned on NHS premises.

 

[Cuchilo]

Complaining about smoking in a car park is a bit daft to me given the car fumes .

 

[classic33]

Complaining about smoking in a car park is a bit daft to me given the car fumes .

The smoking shelter is inside a no smoking area, with the smoking area just outside the main entrance to the hospital building.

 

[ColinJ]

Complaining about smoking in a car park is a bit daft to me given the car fumes .

Most of the cars at any one time are parked. There are often massed gangs of smokers out there at visiting times. (Shouldn't they be inside, er, visiting?) As Classic pointed out - the smoking area is immediately in front of the hospital.

The Google Street View car did a loop of the car park ...!

The smoking den is in the foreground. My bed was next to one of those windows on the second floor. I could not smell car fumes in the ward but I could smell a very strong odour of cigarettes wafting in from outside.

 

[ColinJ]

PS Those 2 red boxes behind the shelter are lockable bike boxes. I noticed them when I went for my last tests at the hospital. There are some more on the other side of the entrance. I think I will probably cycle over for my next checkup!

Oh, and some smokers can't be bothered to walk across to the shelter and stand under the glass canopy instead, despite the No Smoking signs there. That is even closer to the wards.