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GLADYS, 93, IS TOLD: IF YOU WANT A CIGGIE, GET OUT THE HOUSE
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| 24 February 2006
| Tom Hobson
Posted on 02/26/2006 4:41:16 AM PST by SheLion
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To: sgtbono2002
Oh come on. I just read your profile and you seem to be pretty smart and professional. You must have been kidding. This women survived many difficulties in this world and actually made it the way it is today so cut her a break and let her have a cigarette. I mean the last thing I am worried about is supporting someone who sacrificed and worked hard for our country when we are allowing millions of illegals to have our medical care. I would gladly support her medical issues IF she even ends up having any.
To: edpc
I remember the first time I watched someone on oxygen smoking a cigarette. It was about 30 years ago in a hospital section (back when even the patients could still smoke in hospitals) for the terminal cancer patients and I thought it was the craziest thing at the time. The guy would take a puff on his cigarette, wheeze a little, then take a whiff or two of oxygen, wheeze some more, then take another puff on his cigarette. I mentioned it to a couple of the nurses since I thought it had to be pretty dangerous; they just shrugged their shoulders like it wasn't a big deal, said it happens all the time.
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posted on
02/26/2006 5:45:39 AM PST
by
Left2Right
("Democracy isn't perfect, but other governments are so much worse")
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Even young people set their houses on fire and burn themselves to a crisp by falling asleep while smoking. The health issue is the woman's own problem (although I see she's only been smoking since the age of 83). The safety issue is another thing altogetherWell, it goes both ways! Fires start all the time, and not always by a careless smoker.
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posted on
02/26/2006 5:49:50 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: edpc; Mr Ramsbotham
Don't forget...it's likely many of the residents are on oxygen therapy. That doesn't mix well with smoking. Mrs Mock said the home used to have a small room where smokers could light up. But she said the smoking ban in the building has now been enforced for health and safety reasons.
The home used to have a small room for smokers, so I doubt very much if there was oxygen around. Stop spinning.
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posted on
02/26/2006 5:52:41 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: manwiththehands
However, rules are rules. If the only thing in life she enjoys are cigarettes she can move her butt outside in her wheelchair ... or find something else to enjoy.
You're all forking HEART, aren't you! Maybe someday YOU will have to go to a home. Let's see how happy YOU are!
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posted on
02/26/2006 5:54:58 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
But she said the smoking ban in the building has now been enforced for health and safety reasons. How is it unsafe to smoke in a room, particularly if your daughter is willing to stand next to you? Furthermore, at 93 the health issue is a moot point. She's already way in the black on life expectancy.
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posted on
02/26/2006 5:57:23 AM PST
by
Casloy
To: Irish_Thatcherite; Madame Dufarge
The anti-smokers really know how to descend to new depths!!Yes. And even some on this thread are no better! Sickening, aren't they!
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posted on
02/26/2006 5:57:54 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
Stupid is as Stupid does.
We keep allowing the retarded rules/laws they keep coming up with so it is kind of hard to say anything about them after they start affecting you or your family.
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posted on
02/26/2006 5:58:20 AM PST
by
Dustbunny
(The Islam of the terrorists is not a religion it is a CULT whose leader is Satan.)
To: allen08gop
They should put a Biozone air purifier in her room or make a small room available and put a Biozone in that room.
Either way, the smoker would be a non-issue.
THANK you! I have two Sharper Images air purifiers in my home and my friends come in and they can't even SMELL cigarette smoke.
There is no reason today that the non/anti's have a reason to bitch about "THE SMELL!"
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posted on
02/26/2006 5:59:51 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: edpc; peyton randolph
The oxygen safety issue is a (fire) starter. It only takes one incident (which I am sure has occured at least once in the many nursing homes) to make everyone wonder why it was ever allowed in the first place.Are you dense or what! Can't you read where the home used to have a smoking room? Do you really think they had OXYGEN in that room? heh!
Mrs Mock said the home used to have a small room where smokers could light up. But she said the smoking ban in the building has now been enforced for health and safety reasons.
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:02:19 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: Casloy
How is it unsafe to smoke in a room, particularly if your daughter is willing to stand next to you? Furthermore, at 93 the health issue is a moot point. She's already way in the black on life expectancy.Exactly. And a family member could be there in case she was too feeble to be trusted, to watch over her while she enjoyed a cigarette.
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:04:21 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion; Thinkin' Gal; aculeus
LOL! Love that cartoon! (post 25)
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:16:53 AM PST
by
Lijahsbubbe
(I love my danish)
To: SheLion
These administrators sound like they learned their trade working at a public school. ZERO TOLERANCE of a 93 year old woman.
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:18:18 AM PST
by
em2vn
To: Lijahsbubbe
LOL! Love that cartoon! (post 25)hehe
Pretty good, eh? :)
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:19:02 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: Mr Ramsbotham; SheLion; Madame Dufarge
This is the U.K. so I don't know about the regs, but on this side of the pond I'd have to say 95% any long term facility that has been built or renovated in the last 20/25 years has mandatory sprinkler systems, so at least Granny would probably only off herself.
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:21:21 AM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: sgtbono2002
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:25:44 AM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: Dustbunny
I'm starting to think that the whole PC nanny Health Reich gives new meaning to the word "dhimmitude".
Government in the hands of unelected goobers doesn't help either.
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:30:50 AM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: metesky
Government in the hands of unelected goobers doesn't help either.Exactly and they will continue to make life miserable for the rest of us because too few of us will stand up and fight.
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:33:44 AM PST
by
Dustbunny
(The Islam of the terrorists is not a religion it is a CULT whose leader is Satan.)
To: SheLion
Pretty good, eh? :) I liked it too.
I'm secretly looking forward to become old & decrepit so I can laugh
at the other old geezers who are sitting around dying of NOTHING.
Better to have 70 years of freedom, fun, pork chops and beer
than 80 years of yogurt, regimens, raw plant sticks and anal retentiveness.
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posted on
02/26/2006 6:36:18 AM PST
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: Irish_Thatcherite; SheLion
They're beyond despicable.
It's funny watching the Nazis tapdance on this thread about oxygen fires.
It's the spark of independence this old gal is showing that's scaring the hell out of them. Now there's a flame they really fear.
Shame on them for gloating about her being denied this small pleasure in the short time she has left.
Their lives must be very small.
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