Well, I know you can smoke around hospitals in Virginia and South Carolina. Most hospitals in the south have big designated smoking areas because let's face it, there are a lot of hospital workers that smoke. The stress of working in a hospital probably causes some of that.
The other thing I notice (while smoking at a hospital) was that a lot of patients smoke too. Imagine a pregnant women who had to stop smoking for 9 months and just pushed out a baby! Think she might want a cig