"Smoking in hospital grounds"

I fractured my foot recently and sat in ED Antrim hospital for hours, where patient and family went back and forth to the door for a smoke - I sat in a smokey draught for hours.

Outside Antrim hospital's main entrance ... beside the great big no smoking signs ... are rows of patients & visitors puffing away, and staff smoking in the bus shelter by the main carpark. Outside Belfast's RVH the air is hazy with smoke, the entrance is blue with smoke.

I have raised the point again and again, but what is done is a token gesture. Antrim makes a polite announcement via a tannoy; the SE trust is getting a focus group together; the RVH ... nothing.

People smoke; I don't. Hospitals are places where people aren't feeling too well ... smoke doesn't help. There are signs ... people ignore them. Come to your own conclusions.