@warren Perhaps it has something to do with the medical professions change-over from having patients to having clients?
I politely ask that you elaborate on the risk management concerns of a smoking area. People are typically fired from their jobs when they are too preoccupied doing other things.. Smoking should be included. Why should things be ruined because some guy took too many smoke breaks? In my opinion, its not wise to fix every problem with a new rule. If we did that eventually we would have too many rules to follow.
Yesterday while doing something else, I heard a brief NPR radio news item that reported that U.S. Veterans Affairs medical facilities have gone entirely no-smoking. They were never open smoking facilities, but have long had smoking areas. Now they join most civilian hospitals and other medical campuses in going entirely no-smoking. With the volatile gasses and requirements for sterility, and as a vet, I can accept this, but I think it can be used as a precedent for other care facilities declining to have any smoking areas at all, which seems a hardship for patients at long-term care facilities where people have few enough pleasures left in life as it is. Can't have pets, can't have conjugal visits, can't have an alcoholic beverage, can's smoke a pipe. That'll kill you if nothing else does. Freedom!!! Freedom!!!
I simply cannot think of any reason why any business not tobacco related should accommodate smokers in any manner. We simply are not a demographic sufficiently large enough to merit consideration.
The no smoking signs have been replaced by no tobacco use signs
across our hospitals campuses.
That decision was made well above my pay grade. Just passing along the information. It's has also been posted that if you arrive to work smelling like smoke you will be told to leave then you will be credited with an unpaid absence. Third strike and you will be gone.Yes! This is unbelievable.. so I cant have a dip in walking across the parking lot? Can I chew gum? Furthermore can I chew nicotine gum?
So its open warfare on smokers? Figures...That decision was made well above my pay grade. Just passing along the information. It's has also been posted that if you arrive to work smelling like smoke you will be told to leave then you will be credited with an unpaid absence. Third strike and you will be gone.
Sadly for some, all of it in these times..... How much liberty is a person willing to throw away just for the sake of being a contrarian?
You don't have to support banning smoking everywhere just because you smoke and wish you didn't.
I smoke. I enjoy smoking. In fifty plus years I've never felt the need to subject nonsmokers to my wee vice.
It's not about the smoker, people! It's about all of the non-smokers and how we inconvience them. No one cares about the smoker, we simply do not merit any consideration when it comes to smoking around others, in public. Get over it! We lost the battles and ... obviously the war. And this "freedom" and "liberty" stuff simply doesn't apply when the smoker is adversely effecting others. Even when we smokers submit that such inconvience is soooo minor we should be given a "free ride" with respect to the "rights" and "freedoms" of others.
Come on friend you gotta admit it.