Hi Nancy,

If there are penalties associated with the smoking ban (fines for 
example), they just need to be enforced. When people start getting 
fines for smoking on non-designated properties they will get the 
message. If there are no penalties involved with the smoking ban 
people will continue to smoke - period.

Veli Rautio
Pembroke, Ontario

At 11:27 AM 4/19/2007, you wrote:
>The Calgary Health Region has had a ban on smoking on Region property
>since 2002.  While compliance inside the buildings is good, we have
>on-going problems with people (patients, visitors and staff) smoking
>just outside the hospitals.  We are planning to run a survey project
>this summer to get feedback from smokers as to why they are still
>smoking on hospital grounds and what they think it would take to get
>people to comply with the smoke-free policy.
>
>Is anyone aware of this kind of study being done elsewhere?  So far, my
>literature scan has turned up information about implementing smoke-free
>policies, but nothing about approaches to improve compliance with an
>existing policy.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Nancy

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