Comments on: Force Quit

By: kismet

kismet — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:03:49 +0000

Tauranga Hospital has the same complete non smoking policy, and apparently have employed some busybody full time to run round enforcing it. The busybody doesn’t offer any advice about giving up I am told just demands that no one smokes anywhere on the hospital grounds and offers lectures on the the unhealthiness of the habit.

The line of staff and the occasional patient standing on the roadside outside the hospital puffing away is not an attractive look. I fully agree it is a smelly unhealthy nasty habit but aren’t things going too far.

I recall when my father in law died of cancer of the kidney the medical staff fully supported his right to smoke until the day he died – they would take him outside if there was no one else round to take him. As most of them said why make his dying more traumatic for him when it wasn’t going to help at all if he gave up smoking at that point.

By: kg

kg — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:52:51 +0000

At a time when we hear so much about the rights of criminals, welfare beneficiaries, illegal immigrants and just about anything and everybody, doesn’t it seem a little odd that smokers alone have no right to consume a legal, state-taxed drug?
The hospital where I work is 100% “smoke free” yet while an emergency dept doc has to sneak outside and stand in the weather for a quick drag, half a dozen family members can descend on a ward and make life hell for the other patients with their out of control brats and loud televisions because that’s their “right”.
*spit*
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By: Will de Cleene

Will de Cleene — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:02:48 +0000

Aren’t the psych wards still some kind of safe haven for smoking? It’s one thing ripping the fags off the grannies. Try getting between the off-kilter and their ciggies.

Health without dignity is forced medication.

Indeed.