How to end tobacco in Xunta hospitals? SOCIETY Patients with droppers and cigarettes at the door of the hospital under a no-smoking sign; doctors, nurses and orderlies who create smoking areas inside the building and attend to the sick with their clothes, hands and breath reeking of tobacco. It should scandalize us, but it is the norm in the CHUS. In other countries such as Australia, the USA, New Zealand or Sweden, smoke-free hospitals are a reality. We are not different, but we have not bothered to create the culture of respect that it does have there and that we lack here. It is not about, as the Minister of Health of the Xunta, Gómez Caamaño, said, putting a policeman behind each citizen... [Read more]