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SMOKING OUTSIDE HOSPITALS could soon be a thing of the past.
Nearly 50 per cent of HSE facilities and hospitals are now smoke free campuses.
We’re not just talking about no smoking inside, which is a given, but no smoking on the entire grounds of hospitals. So doorways, walkways, car parks, etc, will all be smoke-free.
Mallow General Hospital, Bantry General Hospital and Kerry General Hospital are the latest on the list, the HSE confirmed to TheJournal.ie today. They plan to be declared smoke free zones from 6 January 2014.
But to the real question, does it work?
Cork University Hospital have had the smoke-free policy for the past three years now, since May 2010, but some people continue to smoke outside the main entrance.
A recorded message is played out over loudspeakers reminding people that smoking is banned on the campus.
A TheJournal.ie investigation in October of last year found that smoking was still commonplace on the campus of Beaumont Hospital in Dublin despite it being declared a smoke-free site five months previously.
However, that’s not to say the no smoking campus isn’t having an impact.
Since introducing the smoking ban in the hospital, more than 1,100 new clients attended the hospitals free smoking cessation service and there’s been a 46 per cent success rate.
Patricia Good, HSE South Smoking Cessation Officer said, “This is well above the expected average.”
A spokesperson for the HSE South Offices also said that “it’s encouraged a lot of staff to give up smoking because they didn’t want to have to walk off hospital grounds for their cigarette break”.
In a report published in May of this year, reviewing the three years of a smoke free campus at Cork University Hospital, it’s stated that:
The HSE is committed to all hospital campuses becoming smoke free by the end of 2015.
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Every business in Ennis has been a victim of crazy council rates. That council doesn’t understand the meaning of supporting business. Trump is over this week. Maybe he might give them a lecture on how to grow businesses
…… but robbing shops is part of our culture boss, it’s discrimination to stop us doing it ……
….. our people have been robbing shops all over Europe for centuries, you can’t punish us for following our traditional way of life ……
…… the govment won’t give us free money for sitting on our backsides so we have to rob, I’d a difficult childhood & people at school laughter at me cox I’m stupid & only wear tracksuits ever …… gimme another chance your honour I’ll definitely learn this 63rd time
Every haulage business in the country has had some experience of crime, be it in Ireland or abroad & when it happens overseas we are then the victims of police incompetence or sanction because of the crime perpetrated against us. No help or assistance from the dept of transport or foreign affairs just to add insult to injury.
By “crime” are you including staff pilferage?
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