To feel annoyed with smokers outside the hospital entrance

[Sistermoondance]

I am sitting outside the hospital entrance waiting to be picked up. Thoroughly annoyed as they rescheduled my appointment without telling me.

And everywhere I look there are no smoking signs- on the benches and on the Walls saying that smoking is prohibited. And all I can smell is smoke from about 10 people- either patients or visitors. Can these people not read!!! And if I can smell it I am breathing it in and so are the other poor patients who've come out for fresh air!

I haven't said anything as I don't want to start a row, but I am seething. Either these people are visitors in which case they could walk somewhere where people are not sitting, or they re patients in which case going without a fag would do them good!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

our hospital has banned smoking completely anywhere on its property, thankfully

I would go in and complain to Reception

Again? Sigh!

Just as eating less and moving more would do fat people some good huh?

If they smoke they smoke...you'e in the open air, it won't kill you.

Yabu.

Yabu. There is a lot of 'outside'. Learn to share.

Do you drink? only that is bad for you too

What about the poor old lady with cancer next to me- she couldn't get up and walk away like I did! Yeah won't kill me, I said I was annoyed because of the other poor patients outside.

I reckon breathing in smoke wouldn't help someone with breathing problems!

YABU. Where are they meant to go? If a hospital has completely banned smoking, patients will still need a fag. The entrance is the most sensible place to go. The hospital on the other hand has to put the signs up even though they know people will smoke there.

However, I do sympathise because you shouldn't have to breathe it in and it looks terrible.

As far as I can see the only solution is for the hospital to provide a smoking area....and I can see why they don't.

Catch 22

Not your fault but not their's either

And no I don't drink actually....

I feel sorry for smokers. Particularly sad to see those who have made themselves ill with it and still can't give up.

Anyone with breathing problems will have difficulty being in public. Do you mind me asking why she couldn't get up and walk away? I mean, I don't get what she was doing there if she really can't walk...surely she would have been in a wheelchair?

When I had my DS1 19yrs ago, the maternity hospital had a smokers room on the ward. Now that realy does seem odd looking back at it.

^Don't drink don't smoke, what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow, there must be something inside...^

Is the local hospital so overcrowded that they leave the patients outside?

How did she get there if she couldn't get away?

Did someone leave her there?

Intrigued by the mystery.

Maybe you should be thanking the smokers for contributing more than once for your national health treatment. The tax on cigarettes are over £5 a packet so every packet sold £5 goes to the NHS.

This is where the smoking ban falls down completely - smokers have got to go somewhere to smoke, so they gather outside entrances to be as quick as poss / shelter from the rain etc, which in turn annoys the non-smokers.

Much better if they had a smoking room.

I hate walking through it with DD as it always sets off her asthma, but they have got to smoke outside as it is the rules.

Is this the weekly smoking thread?

I'm guessing old lady was wheeled out there to await her lift maybe?

Couldn't you have moved a bit ?

Oh,I see you did :)

Well ,it is one of those things you can't change I guess ?

Smokers will always smoke ...they will find a way ,I know I used to .

I do hate it when people embellish their story for effect. Just stop it.

I love a good smoking thread ....................

Well, it was directly outside the entrance by the pick up area, she had been wheeled out, and was picked up by a taxi. Was v sad actually. I did not need to make it up... She wasn't the only patient there. It is a lovely sunny day and there were a number of people outside in their pj's or in wheelchairs, some with friends/ family and some who'd shuffled out. I figure the onus should be on the smokers to walk a little further and maybe stand up to have their fag just a little further from the entrance door. Surely if you expect non smokers to get up and move when they are ill, why not expect the smokers to walk a little further?

And nope, don't drink, don't smoke but I love sex!!!!!

I wish people wouldn't smoke around entrances, anywhere, but I don't see my outside areas can't be provided for smokers just as conveniently.

YANBU.

I think there should be designated smoking areas though as smokers have to smoke somewhere.

With my 1st DC I left hospital and had to walk through the huge cloud of smoke that hangs outside the entrance with him. It didnt bother me too much but one lady with a fag hanging from her mouth chastised me for walking through the smoke with my baby.

YANBU - happens at our hospital too - people in gowns and on drips standing around smoking. God knows what they have cost the NHS and even in hospital they can't give up the dreadful habit. I used to make a point of saying loudly to my children that that was what smoking did to you when we went for orothodontist's appointments, now I just tut.