"Free Secondary Lung Cancer in all outside doorway…"

Firstly - top marks to the NHS site/staff - for their support of visitors wishing to have a free lung choking experience, as at every entry/exit point I used today saw a decent number of nicotine addicts, cradling their latest cancer-tab hit, but openly sharing this smoke with anyone passing by...whether they wanted cigarette smoke in the face or not.

The fact that all of the entry/exit areas, both internally and externally, are well sign-posted as "This Hospital is a Non-Smoking-Site" was quite ironic!

Maybe one of the members of staff who can read could nip out every few minutes to inform the non reading smokers of this, as they seemed oblivious of the signs message or even the No Smoking symbol on the signs: or would the inconvenience of having the whole site theoretically deemed Non Smoking on paper not work in practice, if someone had to actually inform the smokers that they're in breach of site rules?

As an example, other NHS sites I know of take serious disciplinary action against any staff breaking their non-smoking rule on site, up to and including dismissal.

It must be a real & not imagined inconvenience as I saw quite a number of uniformed NHS staff walk past & completely ignore these smokers? (One of whom was all but blocking the hospital main entrance with his cigarette & making zero pretence of trying to hide the fact)

Either the Royal Hospital site is non-smoking, or it isn't, and if the latter, then save some money and take down the non-smoking signs & stop pretending that the site is a tobacco free zone!

If the Royal does enforce their site smoking ban, how many people each day are given fines for non compliance?

How many smokers have been fined since the zone was introduced?

Introducing a special zone, then not enforcing this zone is tantamount to condoning smoking - or are the NHS staff at the Royal all smokers themselves and/or not aware of the health risks of tobacco use - both direct use and secondary passive intake!?