Galveston County Daily News, May 5, 2007 Letters to the Editor I understand that University of Texas Medical Branch officials have a zero tolerance for smoking at their hospital. And yet there is a large majority of their employees and patients who walk across the street to Shriners Burn Hospital for Children (which, by the way, has no-smoking signs posted on the outside around the sidewalks) and smoke around the no-smoking signs. Not only that - they also leave their cigarettes butts and empty plate lunches on the grounds and sidewalks around the hospital. I work at Shriners and I cannot express how frustrating it is to tell the same employees and different patients from UTMB on a daily basis that there is no smoking on the grounds or sidewalks at our hospital. Most of the patients have told my co-workers and me that they were told by UTMB security that they could smoke across the street at Shriners. The children who are treated and cared for at Shriners have been traumatized enough already. They and their loved ones deserve to be able to walk around the hospital grounds without having to see cigarette butts and empty cigarette lighters and trash.