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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I'm not saying smoking is a good thing, or that I would encourage my grandbabies to take up the habit. But the great Nick O' Teen, has been very good to me through many long nights of coding.
Caffine as well.
I don't intend to abandon either until I get the final call from the Big Guy.
And I don't care if it hare-lips the governor.
I used to try to be polite about it, but when the anti-smokers got so obnoxious....
Well, as the song says "Anything you can do, I can do better."
/johnny
I think we should have a total ban of soap, perfume, cologne, makeup, eye shadow, fingernail polish, tattoos, fake eyelashes, shampoo, conditioner, toilet paper, synthetic fabrics, petroleum products, fluorescent lights, incandescent lights, LED lights, lotions, and deodorant.
These are ALL man made unnatural materials that could cause allergic reactions in one in 6 trillion people. We mustn’t take the risks.
I hope your sarcasm detection meter is working.
It’s for the children....BTW, you forgot Peanut butter sandwiches ;)
Let’s not let “allergies” to political correctness erase common courtesy and consideration from the public. I was born and grew up in a smoking home and into my young adulthood visited smoking homes, but never personally smoked. A tad of smoke as from a neighboring house or car does not bug me to annoyance. To be in the same place, it is to have burning eyes and choke, and if eating it is to have bitter food and drink and gag. I thank the people who refrain in such close quarters, and I understand if they want to absent themselves temporarily to have a puff that would probably send me to an emergency room if I did it myself.
Tobacco irritation is physical, it’s not one of those things like not being able to tolerate straight marriage if you can’t also arm wrestle society into recognizing gay marriage.
Do a search on it. People do have allergic like reactions but not because of an allergy to smoke. It really is interesting. The article also stated that smoke CAN aggravate an allergy to other things like pollen.
I will FEEL better when the jalepeno pizza passes completely.
I've been eating lots of ice cream.
But as far as caring about whiny Wendys? Nyet, Nix, No, Nein, Non. Not a little bitty whit.
I quit caring when I realized I was carrying about 40% of a department that spent most of their time whining to each other, or in HR.
Sorry, that feeling of emotion is burned out.
Show me a kid going without a Christmas dinner, I'll cry my eyes out and move heaven and earth to make that happen.
But the whiney Wendys? Not so much.
/johnny
They may have to stay away from rib joints as well.
Wendys? How about White Castle?
Good discrimination suit unless they also pan perfume and deodrant with a fragrance....a smell is a smell,some perfumes are horrible...
I was right there with you until you hit that. I can do without. Have on deployments. But I got some wimmen-folk around that share the same county with me.
No can do, kimosabe.
I use 6 rolls a year at chez johnny, but I have hundreds stored, in case of disaster.
We have to think of others, and how miserable they can make us.
Who wants to invent a TP machine 2 months after TEOWAWKI?
/johnny
I think you should add tuna sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches, and AXE.... teen boys use it in gallons. Italian subs smell too so that should be added. /s
Worked over 10 years in hospitals, most nurses smoked also. Never had a complain. We could also smoke during report from one shift to another....that was before so many busy bodies decided to rule others lives based on their personal view of whats good and bad....
If they can do this, then they can ban anyone who eats meat. Are you OK with that too? If not, you are a hypocrite.
Employers are not our Gods, and have no right to tell us how to live PERIOD!
This crap is OK because it doesn’t gig you yet. But who would ever had thought it would get to this 25 years ago.
And I do not smoke.
AMEN! Honestly, I'd like to be more polite about it, and in actual fact, I am polite. I smoke in my house, but refrain if I have whiney guests.
I step far away when smoking in public.
I smoke in the bathtub, but no-one should be there to care. ;)
And I try to not irritate folks with my habit.
Except if they get rude about their 'smoking' thing. And whine and complain and push and shove.
At which point, I quit being polite.
I don't change my smoking policy around non-smokers, but you should see the hysterics you can cause with an unlit cigarette hanging from your lips in a no-smoking area.
The drama queens can KMA.
I do try to be respectful of everyone else.
/johnny
Don’t you just love that kind of azzholle. My son in law likes christmas at my house....he says anyplace he looks he can find an ashtray....I do respect others homes tho if they aren’t smokers...I will step outside to smoke in those cases....its common courtsey in that case...but in public I don’t care what someones opinion of smoke is, its outdoors for cripe sake....and those that make a case out of it are strict anal retentives psych. cases... flame on all you non smokers....
I am a pediatric nurse and I care for children with asthma nearly every day that I work. I have seen, many, many times, children who are being weaned from the breathing treatments take a huge step back when a family member smelling of tobacco smoke shows up to visit. We have plenty of evidence that shows children exposed to tobacco smoke have an increased number of upper respiratory illnesses, ear infections, asthma, increased risk of SIDS, etc.
My hospital enacted this same rule a few years ago. They gave employees six months notice and offered to pay for smoking cessation programs and medication if needed to assist smokers in quitting.
This is old news.. mine did it about 2 years ago.
But I guess you can still smell like a$$...which apparently is the smell du jour at this hack clinic.
If the criteria is about body odor and it is tobacco they object to, eating meat has nothing to do with the discussion.
I find it a ridiculous issue. If people bath and wear clean clothes they wont smell. That is the issue, not whether they eat meat or not.
So, how much evidence do you have for children exposed to the SMELL of tobacco smoke vs. being exposed to actual tobacco smoke?
Because you just got busted for comparing oranges and apples.
Show the science.
/johnny
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