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• Consultant in lung cancer calls for a ban on smoking throughout NHS hospitals 

A LEADING consultant has called for a total ban on smoking in all hospital grounds.

Dr Ian Campbell, a chest consultant at Llandough Hospital, said attempts by NHS trusts to prohibit smoking within their grounds need to be enforced by laws to make smoking illegal on any NHS estates.

His comments come after security staff at hospitals in North Wales said they are facing daily verbal threats and abuse from the public when they try to enforce a smoking ban in hospital grounds.

Dr Campbell, a lung cancer expert and former president of the British Thoracic Society, helped to mastermind a no-smoking culture at Llandough Hospital, in Penarth, more than 20 years ago.

Such action, coupled with the appointment of the first smoking cessation counsellor in the UK, virtually rid the hospital and its grounds of smokers.

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