Thou shalt not...

So there is to be no smoking in hospital, or anywhere around a hospital.  Patients are not in any way to be helped to smoke - by getting them out of bed and taking them to a smoking area, for example (there won't be any smoking areas, anyway - they will be banned). I've mentioned before that I am an ex-smoker, and well aware from personal experience how difficult it is to kick the habit, and how not being able to have a cigarette when you want one can play on your nerves.  So although I can see the logic, this seems to me to be a case of kicking a man when he's down - those in hospital, or those visiting their loved ones in hospital, are already under stress, and this is just going to make it worse.  You have just been told you have cancer, or someone close to you has cancer, and God, do you need a fag!  Are you to be told you can't have one?  How cruel!