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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Really? You think smoking being a bad thing is just personal opinion?
There is no protein in smoke so there can be no allergic reaction.
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Must protein be present for all allergic reactions? I have been reading up on allergies, am allergic to pollen ( mild these days ) and many uncooked fruits.
I just read about the protein aspect of allergies two days ago but was uncertain if it must exist in all cases of allergies.
They won’t be so prissy by the time Obama gets done with them.
They will be heating bed cans of boiling water over rubbish fires in the hallways trying to sterilize used needles.
But you would be welcome to put your feet up on a desk, drag over an ash tray, pour a cup of coffee (and whatever goes in it) and talk about the good old days here.
We're a dying breed, GG.
And for some, not nearly soon enough.
/johnny
Think about what causes a hystimine reaction. I assume you studied that much.
It has to be a molecule large enough to hit the receptors and activate them.
/johnny
So if foreigners don’t wear deodorant can we ban them, too? I think they smell worse. Also people who have excess methane emissions.
Does a guest need to be “whiney” to alert you that he or she suffers tobacco irritation?
Most ridiculous post I’ve ever seen.
Whether this is technically an allergy or not, it’s a problem. Obviously the infants aren’t old enough to even understand the politicization of smoking.
Maybe not quite as ridiculous as you’d think if http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2787386/posts?page=56#56
is honest.
Lets turn that upside down. Do you believe that smoking is always and forever a BadThing(tm)?
Because I believe in a free republic, where, when I don't cause my neighbor harm, I can do whatever I want, including smoking.
In your world, where is the line drawn? What is acceptable, and what is not? And who decides?
Yes, smoking is a personal choice. Whether you chose to see it as good or bad is also a personal choice.
That is does cause damage to an individual, that's pretty well established.
Whether that damage is acceptable to the individual based on the return that they get from the nicotine?
That's up to the individual.
In a free republic.
In a facist state, not so much.
/johnny
“. They get their payback when I’m wheezing my last in a hospital, assuming they outlive me.”
You’ll probably outlive many of them-——I’m living proof of that.
Puff away !
“. Just another liberal that has infested FR as of late.”
Some of the most rabid smoke haters have been around FR for years.
Gets more insane every day.
I wish the Legislators would just grow some balls and outlaw cigarettes and stop farting around with more and more stupid rules.
Trying to rid the world of smokers with these ridiculous regulations is just plain stupid.
That's always the first and only symptom. No redness of eyes, inflamation of esophogeal pathways, none of the real stuff.
Just mainly the bitching and complaining.
Don't get me wrong. I stand hundreds of yards away after the bitching and complaining.
Well, and point and laugh and make fun of them.
As I said, they will get their chance when I wheeze my last. They can lean over and whisper "I told you so". If they outlive me. Lardbutts probably won't though.
/johnny
John,
No, have not studied that much. Have become interested as to why so many children and people in their early twenties have so many allergies. Just today I was baby sitting a young boy who was getting over an allergic reaction to orange juice.
At least that is what it appears to be. His mom is a medical doctor and thinks something else might be going on.
Very odd to have so many allergies developing in children these days.
Sure, Johnny, I’ll do a free internet search for you. I must have been imagining all the adverse reactions children with asthma exacerbations suffered when exposed to the chemicals lingering on clothes all these years. Silly me!
http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/20/6/1213.short
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21467230
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100208154651.htm
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/02/04/0912820107.full.pdf+html?sid=a9fa8602-2b11-433d-a6cd-173e01d3e409
http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/13/1/29.abstract?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&author1=Quintana&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1086821237049_1361&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&r
http://eetd.lbl.gov/IE/pdf/LBNL-49576.pdf
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/analsci/26/5/569/_pdf
You mean, nobody starts with “Johnny, why do you think my eyes are red? Here take this scope, why do you think my trachea (not esophageal pathways) are abnormally inflamed?”
rather than
“this smoke really bugs me — could we arrange to be in different places when you smoke?”
But they don't like that, either.
Just goes to show what it's all about.
/johnny
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