Consultant in lung cancer calls for a ban on smoking throughout NHS hospitals
March 30th, 2009
A LEADING consultant has called for a total ban on smoking in all hospital grounds.
Dr Ian Campbell, a chest consultant at Llandough Hospital, said attempts by NHS trusts to prohibit smoking within their grounds need to be enforced by laws to make smoking illegal on any NHS estates.
Dr Campbell, a lung cancer expert and former president of the British Thoracic Society, helped to mastermind a no-smoking culture at Llandough Hospital, in Penarth, more than 20 years ago.