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NHS want to close smoking room for terminally ill patients in Birmingham
Sunday Mercury ^ | Nov 23 2008

Posted on 11/26/2008 6:54:35 PM PST by Ozob

Politically correct NHS bosses in Birmingham are battling to ban a smoking room for terminally ill patients – forcing them to be turfed out into the cold to enjoy their final cigarettes.

The Sheldon Unit, a palliative care home for patients dying from lung cancer and other diseases, in Northfield, is one of only two health centres in the region that has escaped rigid Smoke Free legislation on ‘sympathetic grounds’.

But when board members of South Birmingham Primary Care Trust, in charge of the unit, heard of plans to upgrade the smoking room with a new ventilation system, the whole scheme went up in smoke.

Bureaucrat Dr Chris Spencer-Jones, South Birmingham public health director, ranted against the renovation plans, saying he did not care if lifelong smokers were dying, he still didn’t want them smoking indoors.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: britain; nhs; pufflist; smoking
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1 posted on 11/26/2008 6:54:36 PM PST by Ozob
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Bureaucrat Dr Chris Spencer-Jones, South Birmingham public health director, ranted against the renovation plans, saying he did not care if lifelong smokers were dying, he still didn’t want them smoking indoors.

What a moron!

2 posted on 11/26/2008 6:56:24 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh Is "The Passion" of Conservatism And Pretty Good At That Radio Thingy)
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turfed out into the cold to enjoy their final cigarettes!!!!


3 posted on 11/26/2008 6:56:45 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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‘’Turfed out into the cold to enjoy their final cigarettes!!’’ And what comes next? A firing squad? I’m we’re talking soicalized medicine here in the UK.


4 posted on 11/26/2008 7:03:48 PM PST by Longtom
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That settles it for me.

I'm going out smoking while trying to hold the SWAT team at bay.

5 posted on 11/26/2008 7:04:53 PM PST by elkfersupper
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“..forcing them to be turfed out into the cold to enjoy their final cigarettes.”

Even the condemmed are allowed a final smoke. Liberals pretend to be compassionate but, in reality, are a heartless bunch.


6 posted on 11/26/2008 7:06:18 PM PST by 353FMG (The sky is not falling, yet.)
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Nazi chicken-sh*t Dr Chris Spencer-Jones, South Birmingham public health director, ranted against the renovation plans, saying he did not care if lifelong smokers were dying, he still didn’t want them smoking indoors.

Sooner or later we need to grease our tracks with these a-holes' guts.

7 posted on 11/26/2008 7:06:40 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Ozob; Just another Joe; CSM; lockjaw02; Publius6961; elkfersupper; nopardons; metesky; Mears; ...

PING to the Nanny State list.........


8 posted on 11/26/2008 7:07:41 PM PST by Gabz (Is a sarcasm tag really needed?)
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Something similar happened here when our state when no smoking. The state-run nursing home/home for chronically ill folks had to go no smoking, sending WWII vets outside to have their smokes. Pretty crappy thing to do to those old vets who were, factually speaking, in their own home there.


9 posted on 11/26/2008 7:09:03 PM PST by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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Alas, there are many here on FR who will agree with this because they just hate smokers.


10 posted on 11/26/2008 7:09:07 PM PST by Gabz (Is a sarcasm tag really needed?)
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“Bureaucrat Dr Chris Spencer-Jones, South Birmingham public health director, ranted against the renovation plans, saying he did not care if lifelong smokers were dying, he still didn’t want them smoking indoors.”

I’m guessing I’m not the only one who would just like punch callous jerks like this right in the face. Same for the idiots who have forced nursing home residents to quit or go out into the cold to smoke, not even allowing them a proper shelter (and this in Ontario, Canada, where it gets seriously unpleasant sometimes in the winter - or summer for that matter, when it’s unbearably hot).


11 posted on 11/26/2008 7:11:21 PM PST by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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Punch them? Noooooo.....


12 posted on 11/26/2008 7:14:27 PM PST by patton (Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; Incitatus is my President.)
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It was actually even worse than what you describe. The home in Smyrna had an outdoor pavillion type structure for the smokers. After the smoker ban went into effect that pavillion fell under the non-smoking law because it was enclosed. DHHS refused to grant an “exemption.”

Delaware is inhumane in regard the isue. The only saving grace is the fact that the winters aren’t brutal.


13 posted on 11/26/2008 7:16:46 PM PST by Gabz (Is a sarcasm tag really needed?)
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Punch them? Noooooo.....

I agree, Patton --- drop kick is better.

14 posted on 11/26/2008 7:19:05 PM PST by Gabz (Is a sarcasm tag really needed?)
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Of course, that is what I meant. ;)


15 posted on 11/26/2008 7:24:20 PM PST by patton (Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; Incitatus is my President.)
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"The Sheldon Unit, a palliative care home for patients dying from lung cancer and other diseases, in Northfield, is one of only two health centres..."

A "health" center for terminally ill patients.

That just about sums up the entire system.

A "healthcare" system full of incompetents who don't have a clue about health, have a horrible track record at "curing" people, and a frighteningly high percentage of patients who die ...from the treatment as often as not.

Any other industry with such a high percentage of failure wouldn't be an industry very long.

But "healthcare" is a government-protected monopoply. Government is protecting the most incompetent destructive industry on the planet.

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16 posted on 11/26/2008 7:25:29 PM PST by gpk9 ("Fairness" is the new Constitution and Bill of (no) Rights for America... I mean Amerika.)
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National Compassion Service, heh?


17 posted on 11/26/2008 7:31:22 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -CS Lewis


18 posted on 11/26/2008 7:34:22 PM PST by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands.)
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saying he did not care if lifelong smokers were dying, he still didn’t want them smoking indoors.

How much obvious does it have to be before people wake up to the fact that the whole smoking abuse of power is not about smoking, nor is it about health, it's about the arrogance of power that is exercised simply because it CAN be exercised.

19 posted on 11/26/2008 7:37:39 PM PST by ConservativeCompendium.net (We need to amend the US Constitution. We the People --> We the Politicians.)
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PING


20 posted on 11/26/2008 7:39:39 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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