Summary
SO IT'S farewell to those sad little huddles of staff and patients (or future patients) outside our infirmaries, enjoying a sly puff. While the Smoking Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 will banish smoking from "enclosed" public areas throughout the country, NHS Greater Glasgow announced last week that it intends to ban smoking not only from its hospitals, health centres and other healthcare premises, but also from their grounds.
Some other Scottish NHS regions, including Borders, Tayside and Shetland, have already introduced similar restrictions, and others, such as Lothian, are in the process of implementing them, in a battle against the tobacco use which is estimated to kill 13,000 Scots every year.See the full content of this document
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Health Boards Take a Stand On Furtive Smokers
As Scotland strives to shed its "sick man of Europe" image with the help of the act - which comes into effect on 26 March next year - Greater Glasgow chalks up a higher-than-average smoking po...
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