Posted on 10/03/2011 6:03:39 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria will implement an anti-tobacco policy for its entire campus starting July 1 of next year, expanding the policy put in place two years ago for employees of the women's and children's areas.
The Town Talk reports the policy will prohibit the use of tobacco products by employees while on their shifts, including when they are on breaks. It also will not allow employees to work if their clothing smells like smoke.
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Oh wait, that's Ok, because they are keeping America safe and healthy for the children.
More health and safety issues to come, Ya’ll happy now.
Nazis come in many flavors.
But after 10PM will grab marshmallows and coat hangers and sit around a cedar campfire.
And this year, like all the other years, I'll sit over in the shadow and smoke like a freight train.
And no-one will notice, until I step out into the light, 2 ft. away.
And then they will hack and cough and whine.
It's great sport. They get their payback when I'm wheezing my last in a hospital, assuming they outlive me.
Lots o' drama around coffin nails.
/johnny
Odor is not smoke. Perhaps if the hospital banned all offensive odors, perfume, the food, folks with poor hygene. One walk through our ER waiting room would ban 3/4 of the crowd.
GEEZ...
“GOOD!”
...you sound like a total douche bag. You’re 1 in 1000 soooo...
Nope. Just another liberal that has infested FR as of late.
Oh? Not a liberal Welly? Then why are you using their language, supporting their causes and siding with their anti-freedom/overegulation BS on a conservative website?
Duck=Quack.
And this isn't about smoke but the odor. Too bad they don't ban strong perfume and after shave.
Msark
I'm not allergic, but I don't like 'em.
I'm not for banning them.
But I do enjoy catching some 50 something wearing heavy floral perfume in the elevator and ask "Heavy flow today, eh? Gotta be hell, going through the change like that"
I only comment because I can emote their need to deal with their changing hormones.
And ride it right into the ground, and kick it.
No quarter to complete jerks. And, of course, I expect none.
/johnny
I can be walking down an aisle in a grocery store and smell somebody two aisles over who just smoked a cigarette.
******
You should wear a cape, Super Sniffer.
The hospital can make whatever rules they want regarding how their employees smell.
If someone wants to smell like stale tobacco and the employer objects, then they can get a different job.
I was going to mention that, but most people really don't believe that. Even if it's true.
I don't like it=I'm allergic in some folks minds.
/johnny
I quit smoking years ago - three packs a day Camel straights. Now I smell cigarette smoke and I have two reactions. One will be “boy does that smell good - you don’t mind if I stand downwind of you?”. That is usually on a cold, snowy or raining day.
My other reaction will be “Man! I can’t believe I used to smoke - that smells terrible!” Most often in a bar, or when the neighbor’s stale cigar smoke wafts into one of our open windows.
25 more years though and I can start smoking again! (That was the only way I would quit - that it wasn’t going to be forever!).
Absolutely true in a free society.
Of course, the down-side is you have a bunch of weepy Wilma's working for you that would rather whine about what Bob smells like, than do an aortic cath.
But what does that matter?
Fire 'em with regard to perceptions, and ignore their skill-sets.
/johnny
Interesting about the protein thing. How about being alergic to dust? Or is it the mold and crap that is picked up by the dust? Or is dust (and smoke) perhaps more of an “irritant” rather than an alergic reaction?
I read an article by an allergist and through the whole thing he was laughing at people that claimed to be allergic to smoke. He was against smoking and warned that some people DO have bad reactions but it wasn’t an allergic one.
But Johnny, won’t you “FEEL” better knowing you gave your life so that some closeted liberal “FEELS” better about their work environment?
They have more important “FEEEings” after all.
That is both technically true and materially false. Allergies are mediated by proteins but sometimes the problem is a natural protein altered by chemical reaction with an environmental non protein. Mercury allergies are this way. Smoke allergies could be.
You are a complete lunatic. I do not smoke but I cook out on the BBQ. I guess that makes me a 3rd hand smoke fiend. Why don’t you be honest and admit you are a lemming.
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