"Passive Smoking"

After visiting a patient in the maternity complex I was amazed that people were allowed to smoke at the entrance of the building you could smell the smoke from the cigarets in the side rooms. The expectant Mothers who choose not to smoke during there pregnancy are subject to smoke that billows up to their rooms through the open windows from the smokers who can't be bothered to smoke just across the way in the smoking shelter. There are patients who are too ill to get out of bed to close the windows so they have to waist the staffs valuable time by buzzing to ask for there Windows to be closed then the patient has to be deprived of "fresh air" (providing there are no smokers below there windows)