I SEE the smoking issue at our hospitals has reared its ugly head again.

What is it with people? Are they just stupid or plain selfish? A hospital is there to treat the sick, not add in their demise.

But people who regularly fill their bodies with poisons from smoking won’t think twice about polluting you as well.

At Easter I was in casualty at the JR and outside on the wall there is a giant ‘no smoking’ sign.

Someone just turned his back on it and lit up unchallenged! So what chance have you got?

As for the staff lighting up, you can’t blame them with the stress they work under.

M TREADWELL, Linnet Close, Oxford