You go, girl! LOLL My aunt was in a nursing home before she died (their fault!!) Anyway, she smoked and at that place as in many other nursing homes there was a smoking area for them to smoke. NONE of the staff were subjected to smoke unless they themselves smoked and went out to that partucular area. IMO, if no one wants smoke where they work, then they can look for work in a workplace that doesn't have smoke. When someone has to go into a nursing home, they try to make it as much like home as possible since it is NOW THEIR HOME! If someone has a worker come into their home (normal homeplace)to do work (repairs etc) they have to put up with any smoke there or don't take the darn job. Should eb the same in nursing homes.
BTW, non smoker here for those that don't know - never have - never will, but I believe it is the businesses place to set what the (legally) allow or don't allow. Not the government.
I might also add that the particular nursing home she was in kept charge of the cigarettes and matches/lighters until a resident asked for one and they were taken back when the resident was through smoking.