Media Articles December 22, 2008
Two Hospitals Seek to Extend Smoking Bans
WHILE some Connecticut hospitals want to ban cigarette smoking on their property to protect patients and employees, two hospitals are trying to go one step further by seeking to ban smoking even from the public streets and sidewalks nearby.
Earlier this month the Human Services Committee of New Haven’s Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a request by Yale-New Haven Hospital to paint the city sidewalks surrounding the hospital with a thin blue line to denote a smoke-free zone.
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