Workers face smoking ban while in NHS uniform … even at home

HOSPITAL staff are facing a blanket ban on smoking at any time while they are in uniform – or even wearing an NHS badge – under a crackdown proposed by officials at one of Scotland's largest health boards

Patients and hospital visitors could also be prevented from taking packets of cigarettes on to hospital grounds under the move, which aims to completely outlaw smoking on every site operated by the North-east health authority. [snip]

Neil Rafferty, a spokesman for the pro-smoking organization [?] Forest, said:

"To suggest that a member of staff cannot smoke during what is effectively their own time, during breaks, is tantamount to health fascism. They shouldn't be bullying workers into trying to change their lifestyle."

[the inevitable evolution of government social engineering: fascism]

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