[SheLion]

Nursing home residents are always allowed smoking privileges in a designed area. The facility is considered their home and the residents are allowed to make their own decisions.

Not in all states.  We have heard horrible stories where old people in wheel chairs go outside their nursing home to smoke.  In the dead of winter.  And they end up "dead."  So, not all states have compassion for the old folks in nursing homes.

Nursing home residents are always allowed smoking privileges in a designed area. The facility is considered their home and the residents are allowed to make their own decisions.

Not in all states.  We have heard horrible stories where old people in wheel chairs go outside their nursing home to smoke.  In the dead of winter.  And they end up "dead."  So, not all states have compassion for the old folks in nursing homes.

[Conservababe]

Well, my experience working in lower level nursing homes through my hospital's contract for therapy, is that Missouri is very concerned about resident's rights.

Residents can smoke in a designated area anytime if they are competent enough to use a lighter. If not, they are taken to the area and are assisted and monitored while smoking their cigarettes. They can drink alcohol in the privacy of their own rooms, but the drinks are stored in a special fridge and must be requested.

Also, the residents can have sex with each other at the facility, if it is consentual. But, that is another story.

[The Foolkiller]

Not in all states. We have heard horrible stories where old people in wheel chairs go outside their nursing home to smoke. In the dead of winter. And they end up "dead." So, not all states have compassion for the old folks in nursing homes.

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That happened in Toledo. An old guy had to go outside last winter, became disorientd, and froze to death. I got suspicious about this story as it never mentioned what he was doing outside. I contacted a woman I know who used to work at the local rag (Toledo Blade, the most rabid smoker-hating paper in the U.S.). She, in turn, contacted someone she knew that still works there. Suspicions confirmed. He'd went out to have a cigarette, but the writer of the story had been told to leave that part out. Not one of the four local TV stations mentioned it, either.