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Originally Posted by Taonuviel
I've been to three facilities around here, and one has no place for smoking. Another one has a room (nastiest thing ever... all that concentrated cheap cigarette smoke! Had to hold my breath and walk fast past it.), and the other allows patients to smoke outside (not so bad. The air takes it away, though it is a bit annoying trying to avoid it to get some fresh air.). The one without anywhere to smoke provides patches, but the smokers get rather... testy... about it. Last time I was in a patient had family sneak in cigarettes for her... not sure what came out of that!
I hate most cigarettes. Seems like every once in a while I'll smell one that verges on pleasant, but that's rare. I think laws should be tougher against them to protect the rights of non-smokers to have clean air, and especially the rights of severe asthmatics. If people want to smoke, fine. But it's wrong to intrude on non-smokers. And then there's smoking around kids, which should be entirely illegal. 
Inpatient rights... need to be maintained. Facilities should be required to have separate space for it - outside is best. Especially since if it's outside and the weather's not that great, it may encourage smokers to cut back to the minimum! |
I agree taonuviel, non-smokers rights are just as important as smokers rights. Non-smokers should always have the right to choose.I definitely think that separate areas are called for........there are the obvious health risks with passive smoking......
But should smokers be restrained and heavily medicated in the name of political correctness because appropriate facilities have not been provided for smokers?.......I think not. This is not a smoking debate.......it is a civil liberties debate. It is about the right to chose.
In corrective services in QLD, our forensic psychiatric facility is given part of their state budget in cigarettes because it keeps the patients "docile" and "malleable". What, so the criminally insane are allowed to smoke but the "relatively, law-abiding mentally ill" aren't?
Gosh, the inconsistencies are atrocious......