Smokers’ rights campaigners have criticised a move which bans smoking across the entire hospital site in Lynn. It comes after officials at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital announced that all buildings and grounds at the premises off Gayton Road were completely smoke-free – with smoking tobacco banned – earlier this month. Health chiefs said the move had been made in a bid to improve the health of patients, staff and the local community. But Simon Clark, director of the smokers’ rights group Forest, said that banning smoking in the open air took “petty officialdom to a new level”. “Denying smokers …
