Health bureaucracy and smoking

Davo111 said :

sounds fine to me, what’s the issue?

Just ban it for the customers too.. There, problem fixed.

sounds fine to me, what’s the issue?

generally stops the smokers congregating around the building exits and forming a small smoke cloud and forcing visitors to run the gauntlet

Since the new parking arrangements at TCH, the designated staff smoking area is now outside the carpark under building 12. The carpark is now used for mobility/disabled parking… which means that people with mobility problems who generally can’t use stairs to access the hospital get the pleasure of sharing the lift with smokers coming back inside from their break (who probably could use the stairs but usually don’t).

The department across the road from Health has totally banned all staff and contractors from smoking during business hours, whether you are more than 15 meters from the building or not.

The Department of Innovation has the same policy – it was the first department to implement it. It’s hardly earth shattering, and generally stops the smokers congregating around the building exits and forming a small smoke cloud and forcing visitors to run the gauntlet.