A hospital trust has banned smoking across all of its sites. Fifteen years after smoking was banned in all enclosed public spaces, Gorleston-based James Paget University Hospital Trust became entirely smoke-free on Monday - even prohibiting smokers from having a cigarette in the car park. The trust says tobacco has long been identified as the main cause of premature death and preventable ill-health in the UK. Figures show 14pc of adults smoke in England. However, 23pc of adults smoke in Great Yarmouth, making it the most prevalent district in Norfolk. Before Monday's ban, smoking at the James Paget had been permitted on-site in the outdoor smoking shelters at the front and back of the hospit... [Read more]