As I walk backwards and forward from home to Milton Keynes Hospital I can't but notice that they're running a 'Smoke-Free' campaign, because the place is awash with posters of all shape and size, one very large one being put across the side of the multi-storey carpark as well as many staff wearing T shirts with the 'no-smoking' logo plastered on them. So, regardless of the 'Give Smoking the Red Card,' why are there still staff (I assume they are staff) blatantly smoking away like crazy? And then, to make things worse, there are people sweeping up the piles of fag ends near the new entrance. The whole thing seems a bit of a waste of time and money if people are ignoring the signs. Is anyone actually dealing with these people who are smoking in full view of everyone?
Later
I walked home from visiting Carol at gone 6 o'clock last night and I saw yet another person smoking along the Redway. I suspect people think that because it's outside that it's not 'hospital grounds' but it's presumably still within the campus and still N.H.S. property. Also, because it's outside that it doesn't matter. Well, they drop their cigarette ends on the grounds and it's a disgusting mess and (similar to what's going on outside the Milton Keynes Academy where staff who smoke go to have a 'quick fag-break', where the ground is a disgusting mess due to all the fag ends that are flung on the ground) I wonder what environmental effect its having. Apart from that, it just looks horrible. The other place that you get a lot of unsightly cigarette-ends is round the side of Ashfield Medical Centre where we're patients. Where you walk when you park your car in the rear carpark and have to walk past, it's strewn with loads of cigarette butts. No attempt made to hide them, nowhere obviously for staff to put them, such as a bin. It's the same in other places, where staff who smoke have nowhere else to go to 'have a fag break.'
The worst thing about the smoking for me is having to see litter bins with piles of fag ends all over the top, those which have a sort of lid and you put your rubbish in through holes in the side. It looks so repulsive, as well as seeing fag ends all along the gutters and beside the paths around the hospital. What is being done about this? The same as is happening to those who continue to smoke- not a thing!
Later
I walked home from visiting Carol at gone 6 o'clock last night and I saw yet another person smoking along the Redway. I suspect people think that because it's outside that it's not 'hospital grounds' but it's presumably still within the campus and still N.H.S. property. Also, because it's outside that it doesn't matter. Well, they drop their cigarette ends on the grounds and it's a disgusting mess and (similar to what's going on outside the Milton Keynes Academy where staff who smoke go to have a 'quick fag-break', where the ground is a disgusting mess due to all the fag ends that are flung on the ground) I wonder what environmental effect its having. Apart from that, it just looks horrible. The other place that you get a lot of unsightly cigarette-ends is round the side of Ashfield Medical Centre where we're patients. Where you walk when you park your car in the rear carpark and have to walk past, it's strewn with loads of cigarette butts. No attempt made to hide them, nowhere obviously for staff to put them, such as a bin. It's the same in other places, where staff who smoke have nowhere else to go to 'have a fag break.'
The worst thing about the smoking for me is having to see litter bins with piles of fag ends all over the top, those which have a sort of lid and you put your rubbish in through holes in the side. It looks so repulsive, as well as seeing fag ends all along the gutters and beside the paths around the hospital. What is being done about this? The same as is happening to those who continue to smoke- not a thing!
