Smoking Ban at the Hospital

As many of you all know, Emily and I live in the only city that has two cigarette brands named after it (at least the only one I know of). Winston-Salem. So it is pretty difficult to get the smoking bans passed here that many people enjoy in other parts of the country. Anyway, the hospital where I go to school finally enacted a no-smoking policy in July. You could never smoke inside the hospital but there were actually little rooms built outside the hospital just for smokers. Now those are gone. You are no longer allowed to smoke anywhere on hospital property - even if you are in your car. In theory. Since the ban, now all the smoking hospital employees (yeah, I know - how does that happen?) go out to the sidewalk to smoke, making what I describe as a "smoking gauntlet" for people leaving certain areas of the hospital. Continuing the story... A friend of mine (another med student) finally took some initiative and wrote a letter to the dean of the medical school expressing the need to execute the new ban on smoking. So he sent it to me and another friend to make sure it sounded okay. It did sound great, but I told him that I had the perfect solution to the problem. Put Mormon missionaries out in front of the affected areas. That way, people will either leave to avoid them or they would convert - either way, smoking around the medical school would be eradicated. I even took some pictures of the situation before and after the missionaries took over enforcing the ban: