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I believe the smoking bans and the anti's who push them, are over the top and have gone way too far!  Putting our elderly at risk over a habit they have enjoyed for years.  Now, it may get them killed.  Big joke in THAT, right?!
1 posted on 05/05/2006 3:45:32 AM PDT by SheLion
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Who ever runs this nursing home should be shot!


2 posted on 05/05/2006 3:46:07 AM PDT by SheLion
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They admit, however, they want residents to quit smoking and won't permit the bad habit on nursing home property any longer.

Our videotape proves that owners of the nursing home don't have any trouble asking residents, already in frail health, to stand in the rain and cold weather to light up.


I am against a bad habit as much as anyone, but these guys are being cruel.
3 posted on 05/05/2006 3:52:38 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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I had a knee operation years ago that required a couple of nights stay at the local bone yard (hospital) to ensure that I remained immobile.

I was in a four banger with three others whose combined age was about 600. I couldn't get any of them to play cards or anything else, all they did was lie around moaning.

After two days of this, I dragged my self and my IV across the hall to a private bathroom for a smoke. The floor nurse burst in and demanded I cease and desist or she'd, "put you on report!"

I replied, "Who you gonna report me too, the F'n principal?"

About half an hour later my bags were packed and they shipped me home.

5 posted on 05/05/2006 3:58:26 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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I am convinced that this was the main cause of my 84 year old Mom's dying in 2003.

We had to move her from assisted living to a nursing home, as she required a higher level of care, and naturally, the "home" was smoke-free.

When they took her smokes away, she went to sleep, and refused to wake up.

No longer taking the medicines she needed to sustain life, she died after a few days.

Honest to God, you can't win for losing when dealing with fanatics- my Dad quit smoking in his seventies, and when he died 25 years later, one of the damn Docs pronounced, "Yep, the smoking did it..."

7 posted on 05/05/2006 4:06:57 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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I didn't know nursing home residents would still be smoking that late in life... The way they push the ban you would think that smoking killed more teenagers than anything else.


9 posted on 05/05/2006 4:21:38 AM PDT by just me
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I pray for the day we are free of these fanatics who are crazy enough to become fronts and follow orders of those that are even crazier.

The best known fronts are Hiltery and Booba who are being rewarded in all kinds of ways for being the scum they are.

Some day these people will be brought to justice and it can't be soon enough for me. Dictatorship and tyrany are not for America.


17 posted on 05/05/2006 4:50:31 AM PDT by freekitty
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First off, this home could be reported to the licensing board for a resident's rights violation.

Secondly, MOST sane homes have designated smoke areas, times and staff supervision. The residents are allowed to smoke, but within these parameters. The biggest concern isn't the 'smoke' killing them but burns and fires.


22 posted on 05/05/2006 5:16:15 AM PDT by najida (Founder of the Contrarian Party....Do NOT argue with me ;))
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Homosexual behavior shorten your life expectancy more than smoking, but I don't see the libs trying to curtail that.


23 posted on 05/05/2006 5:16:37 AM PDT by keats5
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To: SheLion

If the owners don't want smokers on their property, that is their right. If the smokers think there is too much risk in smoking, they can choose not to smoke or choose not to live there.


31 posted on 05/05/2006 6:19:02 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
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Putting our elderly at risk over a habit they have enjoyed for years.

Enjoyed? They are hooked.

34 posted on 05/05/2006 6:26:29 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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My wife has worked at a nursing home. They have already stated that no matter what laws are passed there is one thing lawmakers cannot change.

A nursing home is exactly that.....their HOME!

While the nursing home is forcing employees to exit the property to have a cig, the residents have a designated smoking area. They get it, the gov't cannot dictate at home!


43 posted on 05/05/2006 8:01:19 AM PDT by BlueStateDepression
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I've been smoking for 45 years and my Doctor keeps telling me that I need to quit. My response to her is, "Doc, I want to be the one who controls what I die from and I sure hate the idea of being disabled, laying in a bed in a rest home and dying from boredom."

Selfishly, I do hope that I die before my wife does because she is what makes me smile. Her cooking beats the best restaurants in town and she certainly does more for me than any nurse or hired hand could do.

Ideally we'll die together from a lightning strike.

44 posted on 05/05/2006 8:03:40 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
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The anti-smoking nutjobs in Washington State are heinously self-righteous. If some seniors die while trying to shuffle out for a smoke, they'll just say "well they were killing themselves with cigarettes anyway!"


57 posted on 05/05/2006 9:01:05 AM PDT by Junior_G
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Heh... well, sounds like smoking off property is a pretty good motivation to get some exercise.

But I don't believe in treating old folks like children. Those clients are paying customers. They should demand a place outside to smoke, and if the mgmt won't allow that, they should leave.


62 posted on 05/05/2006 12:49:43 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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