Common Council member James Sano has proposed an enforced ban on smoking within 100 feet of hospital campuses. The proposal is expected to go to the council for consideration by next month.
"Sixteen area hospitals decided to simultaneously go smoke-free on their campuses last year so patients would no longer pass through a haze to get through the doors...The decision had the unintended impact of causing hospital workers to line the sidewalks, walk in front of homes and loiter outside businesses...
Elmer Streeter, a spokesman for St. Peter's Hospital, said smoking areas are being set aside on campus again.
"We've created some areas where employees could smoke, but we've also made a much firmer policy that would require people to use those areas to smoke and not public sidewalks," he said
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