Dearborn Looks to End Ordinance Driving Smokers Into Neighborhoods Near Hospital
The ordinance requires people to be 100 feet away from Oakwood Hospital when they smoke, which residents say has brought smokers right to their doorsteps.
Dearborn City Council took steps this week toward repealing an ordinance aimed at stopping smokers from lighting up in front of Oakwood Hospital. The ordinance, approved in January under the offenses chapter of the city code, added hospitals to the list of places in which smokers had to be at least 100 feet away before they could partake. It was enacted after Oakwood—which has its own no-smoking policy on the campus—came to the city asking for help in getting hospital staff and visitors off of Oakwood Boulevard when they chose to smoke. However, the ordinance had an unintended consequence. According to residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the hospital, hospital staff and visitors began taking their habit to their doorsteps—literally…
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Linda Scharf Brazier
9:42 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Oh yeh do we see the wheel chairs and pajama's and IV poles alot too ......again I live on venice and right by the ER omg seeing that just looks so bad .........my granddaughter makes funny comments all the time now and she is only 6 yrs old more ›