Nurses and smoking

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  1. Is it ok for nurses and doctors to smoke?

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      Yes, Its their body.
    • 192
      No, its not very professional.
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      Other, explain

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Do you think it is ok if a nurse or a doctor smokes? Because i know when i go to the doctors office with my boyfriend and he tells him that he smokes that he gos on and on of how he shouldnt be smoking at all. But then we go outside and see nurses smoking and such!! So what do you guys think?

If it's soley to pick an argument, i won't feed into it.
its not, its aboutinfringing on someones personal rights. i dont support smoking just there rigth to do so. i work in a hospital that does not allow it and live in a city that has banned it. will not go to another city and work at a hospital that allows it, it does not give me the right to chastise those individuals in that city or hospital that dose allow it. like those that smoke have a choice to smoke, you have a choice to work there or live in that area, so its your choice to work where you have to put up with the smoking.
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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

Howard Stern has freedom of speech rights secured by the US Constitution. Despite frequent smokers' claims to the contrary, that document mentions no such protections to be applied to smoking. If there was any such mention, then obviously the proliferation of no smoking laws in this country would have been overturned on consitutional grounds.

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thats why vegas is a great place. when i as over there last year the only place you couldnt light a cigar was.....

in the buffet breakfast

at the poker table

and in the elevator

now thats my kind of place.

there ment to be bringing in smoking bans in public here soon, thats ok by me, as i dont fire up when i go out, but the thing i dont understand is why are they enforcing it in cigar bars??????? your only going to go to a cigar bar if you smoke or like cigars so what gives??????

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glad I am in WA then. It's like California, smoke free all over. AHHHHH the air never smelled sweeter.

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.
glad I am in WA then. It's like California, smoke free all over. AHHHHH the air never smelled sweeter.

:w00t: ... glad to hear the state of WA is a no smoking zone!

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.
out last night for a steeler/birthday party for one of our nurses. sitting across from me at the table is a male nurse 45 years old. already had a mi and two cardiac stents placed. in his hand a cigarette. as the night went on, he opened his second pack. after he ate two hot dogs with the works, he ate a huge pice of birthday cake and washed it down with a 6 pack of beer. i'm not sure whats worse the smoking or the diet, but i think his chances would be alot better if the smoking was eliminated!

go steelers!!!!!!!!!!

steelcityrn - congrats on the victory over the broncos! yesterday's games were so :zzzzz boring! big ben for the steelers is a helluva qb. however, since susan & i are moving to wa, about 60 miles south of seattle, gonna have to cheer for the seahawks [except, whenever they play my cowboys]. anyway, hope its a close competitive sb.

btw, wa is a smoke free zone

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:w00t: ... glad to hear the state of WA is a no smoking zone!

Just recently passed, Corvette. You will like that-----for ONCE no having to suck in others' smoke at restaurants or other places. I always held, having a

"no smoking" section of a restaurant or other establishment is no more effective than a "no peeing section" of a pool.

And they can't smoke at the DOORS either----no they have to be a set number of feet away. So no more cig smoke getting sucked in w/people entering the building. YEAHA!!!!!

There is a group fighting to repeal the law. WA State has a LOT of smokers, I was shocked to learn when I moved here. I hope they don' t win. It's great not worrying if my son will have an asthma attack just by going out to eat or go bowling.

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glad I am in WA then. It's like California, smoke free all over. AHHHHH the air never smelled sweeter.
yeah its smoke free all over, well almost but looks like soon it will be totally illigal to smoke in the whole state i think. however, if you drive into downtown LA you can taste the air and its not from smoking cigs.

YEAH BABY!!!! steelers will take the super bowl sorry corvette guy. seattle does finially have a football team but this is the steelers year.

i know this is about workers smoking but what about the patients who smoke?? right or wrong they smoke and come into the hospital for many reasons both related to smoking and not related to smoking. should those patients that smoke be allowed to do so? i think this is the ture reason why some hospitals will always allow smoking. or they will risk losing the buisness of those people who smoke, to hospitals that do allow it or they (the smokers) will sneak out and go who knows where to smoke. we may be able to argue about co workers smoking, but what about the patients?

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yeah its smoke free all over, well almost but looks like soon it will be totally illigal to smoke in the whole state i think. however, if you drive into downtown LA you can taste the air and its not from smoking cigs.

YEAH BABY!!!! steelers will take the super bowl sorry corvette guy. seattle does finially have a football team but this is the steelers year.

i know this is about workers smoking but what about the patients who smoke?? right or wrong they smoke and come into the hospital for many reasons both related to smoking and not related to smoking. should those patients that smoke be allowed to do so? i think this is the ture reason why some hospitals will always allow smoking. or they will risk losing the buisness of those people who smoke, to hospitals that do allow it or they (the smokers) will sneak out and go who knows where to smoke. we may be able to argue about co workers smoking, but what about the patients?

Like everyone else in California, patients here just aren't allowed to smoke inside. Too bad so sad. No arguments needed. My Mom's roommate smoked when she had her hysterectomy 20 years ago, and the hospital was spectacularly indifferent about even attempting to find other accommodations in which she could recuperate. When I was growing up, our family doctor always had a cigar in his mouth. You could be visiting him with the most ghastly URI and he'd just puff it right in your face. I always have to remind myself that this still happens in other states.

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Like everyone else in California, patients here just aren't allowed to smoke inside. Too bad so sad. No arguments needed. My Mom's roommate smoked when she had her hysterectomy 20 years ago, and the hospital was spectacularly indifferent about even attempting to find other accommodations in which she could recuperate. When I was growing up, our family doctor always had a cigar in his mouth. You could be visiting him with the most ghastly URI and he'd just puff it right in your face. I always have to remind myself that this still happens in other states.
not talking about inside the hospital but, outside still on the grounds.
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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
not talking about inside the hospital but, outside still on the grounds.

Which comes right on in through the door when it opens...

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I couldn't care less if other nurses smoke or not - it IS an informed decision. Just don't expect me to watch your patients for you 5-6 times a day while you go out to "huff and puff".

HAHA.."HUFF AND PUFF" -----THAT IS SO HILARIOUS!

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