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Louisiana Hospital to Ban Odor of Smoke on Workers' Clothes
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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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To: Red in Blue PA
From California to New York to Texas to Louisiana the smoking Nazi's have succeeded.

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.

21 posted on 10/03/2011 6:22:43 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again for our justification)
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To: Red in Blue PA
I hope they're out of business by year's end.

Nazis come in many flavors.

22 posted on 10/03/2011 6:25:51 PM PDT by tomkat (para bellum)
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To: Political Junkie Too
I'll spend next weekend around family that will hack and cough at just the mere sight of an unlit cigarette.

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

23 posted on 10/03/2011 6:27:02 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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...


24 posted on 10/03/2011 6:27:45 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (John McCain is a proud Ted Kennedy conservative!)
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To: WellyP

“GOOD!”

...you sound like a total douche bag. You’re 1 in 1000 soooo...


25 posted on 10/03/2011 6:27:45 PM PDT by albie
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To: WellyP

26 posted on 10/03/2011 6:32:20 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (If found, please turn me in to AttackWatch)
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To: albie; WellyP

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.


27 posted on 10/03/2011 6:32:48 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: WellyP
Although smoke may make some people have a bad reaction, it isn't an allergy. There is no protein in smoke so there can be no allergic reaction.

And this isn't about smoke but the odor. Too bad they don't ban strong perfume and after shave.

28 posted on 10/03/2011 6:33:02 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Will they be able to also ban women who feel the need to apply their perfume with a crop-duster? Or people with BO?

Msark

29 posted on 10/03/2011 6:33:48 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Lauren BaRecall
What should be banned in a hospital is cologne and other fragrances.

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

30 posted on 10/03/2011 6:33:56 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: TruthHound

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.


31 posted on 10/03/2011 6:35:23 PM PDT by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


32 posted on 10/03/2011 6:36:08 PM PDT by svcw (Those who are easily shocked... should be shocked more often. - Mae West)
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To: DJ MacWoW
There is no protein in smoke so there can be no allergic reaction.

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

33 posted on 10/03/2011 6:37:40 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

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!).


34 posted on 10/03/2011 6:38:53 PM PDT by 21twelve (Obama Recreating the New Deal: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: svcw
If someone wants to smell like stale tobacco and the employer objects, then they can get a different job.

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

35 posted on 10/03/2011 6:41:11 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

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?


36 posted on 10/03/2011 6:41:48 PM PDT by 21twelve (Obama Recreating the New Deal: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: JRandomFreeper

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.


37 posted on 10/03/2011 6:43:13 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: JRandomFreeper

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.


38 posted on 10/03/2011 6:44:12 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

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.


39 posted on 10/03/2011 6:44:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: WellyP

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.


40 posted on 10/03/2011 6:45:19 PM PDT by ohioman
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