You wouldn't expect doctors and nurses to smoke around hospital patients.
Visitors stub out butts at the door.
But until recently, the very people most vulnerable to suffer the ill effects of smoking the patients were the only ones allowed to smoke at Kingston Hospital. The irony didn't escape the administrators. In April, the hospital took a big step to create a smoke-free environment. Since 1992, patients, with a doctor's order allowing them to smoke, could be escorted out of the building for a cigarette. Under Kingston's new rules, patients are offered nicotine patches and education to help them kick their nicotine addiction.