Smoking on hospital property

[vc1111]

Local hospitals have banned all smoking on their property for visitors and employees.

No smoking. None. Not even in your car as an employee or visitor.

Good policy or overboard over-the-top PC nonsense?

Why or why not?

[Charlie P]

It is private property right?

maybe they got tired of picking up cig butts.

[vc1111]

Well, it won't affect me, but I see both sides of the issue.

[Californiadoctor]

I wish I could get lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease patients to stop their serupptitios smoking in their hospital rooms.

caldoc

[James B]

As said already if its private property then they have every right to set the rules. I would love to smoking banned on this Planet. PERIOD. On all public property that is.

[Cougar Mag]

Smoking is bad, bad, and more bad! That being said, if I am in my car and wish to smoke I will.

[mr-pirk]

Cougar Mag " Smoking is bad, bad, and more bad! That being said, if I am in my car and wish to smoke I will ". Amen.

James B what about other obnoxuios<sp> behaviour? Lond boom box's blaring X-rated words?

" As said already if its private property then they have every right to set the rules. I would love to smoking banned on this Planet. PERIOD. On all public property that is ".

A good thing ole Teddy R. didn't get arrested for that stogie clinched in his teeth huh?
It is one thing to dis-allow what you will on property that you alone paid for, it is something else for public property.

I don't much care for folks who have been married 4 or 5 times..it cheapens the concepts of marriage, maybe they shouldn't be allowed in the parks either?

Cal-Doc... I wish I could get lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease patients to stop their serupptitios smoking in their hospital rooms. ... surely you don't mean this.

As a Doc I would assume you know what it means to be addicted to something...... Just HOW does someone sneaking a smoke in thier room while you aren't there hurt you?????????????????????????

Charlie P lets get real " It is private property right?

maybe they got tired of picking up cig butts ". I have seen just how small a cig-butt is..surely you don't believe what you posted.

How many times have you seen a pile of trash and the first thing you said was "WOW what a pile of Cig-Butts"?

Boy scouts can't exclude homo-sexuals and still use public property...how is a hospital a private endevor when the Boy Scouts isn't?

I know comparing apples to apples hospitals to the Boy Scouts as a private enterprise is still a bit of a streach...but it is getting closer by the day.

The truth be known...most of the anti-smoking laws are much more about non-smokers imnposing thier will "just because" than any real danger to the non-smoker.

Thanks
Mr-Pirk

[Knightia]

As a Doc I would assume you know what it means to be addicted to something...... Just HOW does someone sneaking a smoke in thier room while you aren't there hurt you?????????????????????????

If its for the addiction property of smoking - then id think a nico patch or inhailer would be better- then druged patients, with physical problems creating a danger to all with there smoking & are fire hazeard in places noted for having oxygen around.

But poltiall correctness& personal agendas do seem to be behind these extreame nonsmoking campains for the most part.

[Knightia]

Apone hearing of the immigrent itilians(50 or so?) hung from lamp posts beaten with ax handles & shot- by the towns folk- Ol teddy r,s response- bully good show ( or some such famous catch words he was noted for)

[mr-pirk]

Knightia " If its for the addiction property of smoking - then id think a nico patch or inhailer would be better- I will have to check on the success rates of those who use them. I am assuming they should be somewhere around 100%?

Thanks
Mr-Pirk