"Non-Smoking areas"

Recently, I was sitting outside on the front seats waiting for my spouse who was having an x-ray done. On my arrival, there was no one smoking, then along came the hospital patients who all lit up their smokes in a non-smoking area and some of them were dropped off by a staff member.

Your policy is signposted and regularly announced that the entire hospital area is totally smoke-free. I then sadly had to go back inside or be smoked out instead of being able to sit out in the fresh air. I noticed that wherever there was a non-smoking area, there were hospital patients and visitors smoking there.

I don’t understand why these hospital patients and visitors seem to be allowed to smoke anywhere in the hospital grounds, even in an area that is set aside as a non-smoking area for the health of others; why there isn’t a hospital staff member out patrolling these areas to enforce this law; why the hospital doesn’t have an area set aside for their hospital patients to go to when they need to smoke, instead for inflicting this upon others.

In my opinion, more than likely they are in hospital with smoking-related issues, yet they seem to be winning even though I believe others are doing the correct things in life. These people seem to get away with smoking anywhere they like. How is that allowed?

I believe this and other hospitals, need to be more responsible and take action to have our hospitals a safer and cleaner place to be and visit. I feel you need to do something about this instead of brushing this aside and pretending that it doesn’t exist.

The hospitals' are run under strict health law and regulations that have been set up for the safety of treating people by the health commission, yet it seems you’re failing to control your non-smoking areas, why is that?