why can't Hospitals enforce the 'no smoking' areas outside?

I feel sorry for people that are so addicted to smoking that they cannot quit it and it has such a hold on them . I feel sorry for people who have illnesses from so many years of smoking or who have died from smoking or as a consequence.

Um, I cannot really say that people are free to drink are harming others unless they become annoying, angry etc ... but people around me drinking does not affect my health, they (if they are a heavy drinker are just causing harm to themselves) same as them taking drugs , dont affect me directly same with taking pills , its all their choice and its up to them what they choose to do with their own life / body.

But yes many a time Smokers have affected my health because of what they choose to carry on doing . Trivial as it sounds:

Make my clothes smell of stale smoke when I dont even smoke myself, the inconvenience of trying to get past smokers as they are huddled in a doorway entrance/exit , having to see and step on fag butts on the floor of an entrance and on the more serious effects from other peoples choice to smoke:

Streaming eyes, irritated throat, coughing , wondering what damage its causing me breathing in other peoples smoke.

Smokers can try and justify they are not affecting others as much as they want, they can say "if we smoke outside in the air the wind takes the smoke away" or "when I smoke I am always considerate of others and blow the smoke the other way" - its a load of rubbish and there are only one type of smoker who is considerate , and that the ex smokers and the people that don't smoke are considerate to not only themselves (because they care about their health) but they also care about others as well, not polluting the air with secondary smoking that can cause a nuisance and health issues to everyone who is around them . we all deserve fresh clean air to breath in wherever we go and not to stink and change our clothes because of someone else's habit we have been around.

i often find a lot of ex-smokers only realise after they have given up smoking for a while how blind they were to how antisocial it was and annoying to other people around them. A lot of the time people who continue to smoke (because they like it, or its a habit they cannot break or whatever reason) really do not care about other people around them most of the time. They feel it is a God given right that they are a smoker and everyone else around them better just get on with it and suck it up buttercup because a lot of people believe they have 'rights' and feel threatened if someone or some organisation or something dares to take their right to smoke away ....

if the smoking shelter is no right bang at the entrance though they dont seem to walk a few steps to get to the shelter. Think its been tried and failed before, a shelter provided and a sign directing them to the smoking shelter and people still smoked at the entrance/exit of the hospital.

Smoking shelters , there is another thing. Loads of people smoking in one confined space together so they are not only damaging their lungs and whatever by smoking themselves on top of that they are breathing in other peoples smoke (secondary smoke) whilst in the shelter - double the concentration of carcinogenic they are breathing in .

that's going to be only a very small section of people who smoke and hate themselves for smoking - doing a survey (and if everyone were completely honest , and strike them sown with lightning if they weren't, I bet you could hold a survey at the door and ask people why they came out for a smoke. a certain amount would probably say "I was dying for a fag" (thats not the same as I hate myself for smoking) some will say "just something to do/I was bored - just to kill time" - some might even say "its my right and you cannot stop me" and then to justify most probably bring out the "what about people who drink / eat and get fat" - not kinda getting to the crux why they actually stood outside the hospital doors for a smoke rather than just wait until they got home or at least right out into the open well away from the hospital areas.

that cannot be excuse where do you stop? - what if they cause criminal damage or steal something or are abusive? they are not supposed to do that either, i am pretty sure they can discipline them on that