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Hospitals across southwest Florida are banning smoking completely. It's impacting more than just employees, like Adrienne Jones. She used to smoke a pack a day.

"Our lunch hour, smoke as many as you can instead of eating," admits Jones.

That attitude stopped a year ago when her 42-year old husband, also a smoker, suffered a heart attack.

"It was sudden," said Jones. "We didn't expect it, we didn't know he had a bad heart."

Health concerns are the main reason her employer, Lee Memorial Health System, is installing a tobacco ban on all their properties starting November 19.

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