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 didnt want them smoking indoors.
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Do you live in WA state? The same thing happened at the Veterans retirement home in Retsil. The first barrage came in 1986 or so, when a new administrator locked a gate that opened across the street from a tavern that catered to the vets. If they wanted an excursion off grounds he posited, they could ride the bus. Soon after, they banned smoking in rooms. I have heard that they now ban smoking on the grounds, although I cannot verify this, as my friend no longer works there.
No, Delaware. But it sounds pretty much like what they did here.
A “Smoking Room” for terminally ill lung-cancer patients???
Is this from The Onion or Scrappleface???
What is your point? If they are terminally ill, who cares if they smoke?
Well, we wouldn’t want terminally ill people dying, would we?
Thanks for the ping!
When will people stand up and shout: “We’re TERMINAL from the moment we’re born! Leave us alone!”
(Of course, that only works if we’ve been lucky enough to have a mother that will carry us to term!)
Grrrrrr!
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