Dear Sir,
Predictably, the issue of smoking shelters at the
Royal
Bolton
Hospital has, together with other
matters at the hospital, descended into farce.
This stems from the original decision to ban smoking on
the whole of the hospital site some five years ago. This ban last a fortnight
until the powers that be discovered that it was illegal apart from being
unenforceable.
The subsequent removal of the smoking shelters inevitably
resulted in patients and visitors alike huddling round the main entrance
producing a cloud of tobacco smoke that everybody else had to fight their way
through.
The eminently sensible decision to re-instate the
shelters away from the entrance would have solved this and allowed the smokers
to poison each other to their hearts content without offending or affecting the
purer living individuals who don’t smoke.
But NO! The hairs
were up on the necks of the fascist anti-smoking brigade. From the Council
downwards the loins were girded, the placards written. ‘We know what’s best for
you!’ ‘Off with their heads!’ ‘To the gallows!
Net result – their will be no smoking shelters. Back to
the status quo.
Happy passive smoking everybody.
Paul Richardson
Ripon Close
Little Lever.
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