[writer33]

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!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

turfed out into the cold to enjoy their final cigarettes!!!!

[elkfersupper]

That settles it for me.

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

[353FMG]

“..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.

[hinckley buzzard]

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.

[Gabz]

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

[ktscarlett66]

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.

[Gabz]

Alas, there are many here on FR who will agree with this because they just hate smokers.

[-YYZ-]

“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).

[gpk9]

"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.

[/rant]

[Seruzawa]

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

[ConservativeCompendium.net]

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.

[Redbob]

A “Smoking Room” for terminally ill lung-cancer patients???

Is this from The Onion or Scrappleface???

[DakotaRed]

Well, we wouldn’t want terminally ill people dying, would we?