Further to the Forest report about hospital smoking bans, published last week.
Rob Lyons wrote an excellent piece for Spiked that was headlined, a little misleadingly, ‘Why we should allow smoking in hospitals’.
(The report called for smoking to be allowed outside, on hospital grounds, not inside.)
Anyway, I was rather taken by the following response that was posted in the comments:
Speaking as a lifelong non smoker I agree with this article. Smokers are a hectored, bullied group. Any other group can of course claim discrimination and win, this group can't.
As an added point I would also like to see alcohol served, preferably with a bar in hospitals. I recently spent a day in hospital whilst my wife had an operation. The boredom was unbelievable.
Wetherspoons have pubs in airports and motorway service stations. Why not hospitals? I jest not!
Pubs in hospitals? I'll drink to that!