Smokers entering Cork hospital urged to ask for 'quitting medications' 

Mercy University Hospital is looking to reinforce its tobacco-free campus status

'Smoking and the use of electronic cigarettes is not permitted anywhere in and around MUH and anywhere that can be considered its campus.' File picture: iStock

A Cork inner-city hospital has encouraged smokers to ask for free ‘quitting medications’ as it reinforces its tobacco-free campus status on the streets on Wednesday to mark world no-tobacco day.

Mercy University Hospital (MUH) will use part of a €7,000 tobacco-free campus bursary from the HSE to refresh signage, to provide literature for patients and the public, and on local advertising, to improve public compliance of its smoke-free status in the areas around its various city centre locations.