Who ever runs this nursing home should be shot!
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.
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..."
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.
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.
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.
Homosexual behavior shorten your life expectancy more than smoking, but I don't see the libs trying to curtail that.
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.
Enjoyed? They are hooked.
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!
Ideally we'll die together from a lightning strike.
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!"
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.