Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2009-11-06
Intro: Sunderland Royal Hospital is "reluctantly" reinstating shelters for smokers in its grounds.
Health bosses admit they are unable to stop people disobeying the no-smoking rule and lighting up just outside the hospital's main doors.
This had led to complaints by patients and staff about second-hand smoke drifting into the building.
Purpose-built shelters, which were dismantled two years ago, are to be set up again.
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