Hospital extends smoking ban to nearby sidewalks

Cleveland Clinic has been this way for years. If you go to apply for any job it states a disclaimer that they will be doing a nicotine test. If you fail then you are not hired but can attend smoking cessation classes and upon completion can retry the hiring process.

It only makes sense... if we're telling heart patients to stop smoking and then they see a nurse or doctor do it, isn't it silly?

Sort of like parents stating "do as I say, not as I do?"

Cleveland Clinic has been this way for years. If you go to apply for any job it states a disclaimer that they will be doing a nicotine test. If you fail then you are not hired but can attend smoking cessation classes and upon completion can retry the hiring process.

It only makes sense... if we're telling heart patients to stop smoking and then they see a nurse or doctor do it, isn't it silly?

Sort of like parents stating "do as I say, not as I do?"

No, i have to disagree, If a person is in a wheelchair and they get hit by a car as they tried to cross the street, then they were stupid. Hospitals dont want people to smoke on the hospital property, then that is their right as a hospital. Hospitals do have nicotine patches and gum you know to help counter that urge. I used to smoke, i understand how addictive that urge is.
This goes back to instant gratification, they want that fix now, forget that they have to carry an IV pole and roll in a wheel chair. Maybe if they got hit by a car and died as a result, well, I guess its just sucks because it doesnt make much sense to go in a wheelchair across the street to smoke, your in the hospital to get better. If you decide you need a smoke that bad, try the lozenges or the gum or the patch. At that point, a person needs to realize that by going in a wheelchair across the street, Maybe it is darwin evolution at its best.. Stupidity kills. TOo bad

Interesting! I didnt think a company could do this, but I suppose interview process in fair game. It is like some hospitals Ive heard of that reserve the right to charge you more for insurance premiums if you have health risks, like smoking, obesity, etc.

California has a law that you can not smoke in any public place (including bars) or withing 20ft of a public building, but smoke drifts. If smokers have the right to smoke than non-smokers should have the right to not have to breath second hand smoke. Hospitals are heath care facilitates and should promote heath and should not be expected to provide their patients with "smoking shacks" or designated smoking areas; but if they choose to they need to still consider the health of the non-smoking patients.

I do not care one little bit who is a smoker or who is not at work or in life but I do however have really strong feelings about patients smoking.
I object to people being ill enough to be in hospital needing expensive nursing/medical care going off the floor with and without an IV pole containing every IV known to mankind to go and stand outside smoking I firmly believe that pts who go off the floor to smoke should be discharged because they are obviously feeling better.

Sorry for my strong opinion I am trying hard to work on it