Hospital to ban odor of smoke on workers' clothes.

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I don't have an issue with banning the smell of cigarettes. If someone is being rushed in, hurt, they may not have the time to put on a mask or whatever and if the smell were to somehow cause a peron to have breathing issues then it could make the difference between someone making it or not. My dad smokes, smoked my whole life and I almost never ended up smelling like smoke. All you have to do to avoid the smell sticking to others who live with you is not smoke in the house or in the car. And while it's harder to keep the smell off yourself if you're the smoker, there are ways to keep it way down. AND there are those new smokeless cigarettes. So people could still keep the habit if they don't want to quit.

 

[Royd]

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Except for my sixth grade teacher. At the time, I didn't realize what it was, but that woman's lungs were one step away from becoming charcoal.
As she would stroll up the aisle and look over your shoulder to check your work, I would literally shrink away from her. We are talking dragon breath.

 

[PotterWatch]

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For a patient who is already hospitalized, how are they supposed to deal with their nurse or doctor bringing in that smoke that has a negative effect on them? If this was a decision based only on visitors who didn't like the smell, that would be one thing; but if it is adversely effecting the health of patients, then it should be dealt with. Now, how much it really is effecting patient health, I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't want my sick child exposed to it. When my son was younger, he was often sick and often hospitalized with pneumonia. I would definitely have had a problem with a nurse or doctor coming in with smoke lingering on their clothes to attend to my son who was already in respiratory distress and having to lay in an oxygen tent. There have been times we have left a restaurant or shop because of the smoke smell lingering on an employee, but we didn't really have a choice to leave the hospital if it had been an issue there.

 

[prairiehen74369]

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No constitutional rights are being violated. It's their place of employment, they aren't forced to be there. It would be like shouting obscenities at your boss, getting fired, then complaining about freedom of speech.

Reading these posts makes me painfully aware of the fact we'll always find something to complain about.

 

[big medicine]

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We heat our house with a woodstove. If you are getting enough smoke on your clothes to be noticable, I'd be for having someone go over your stove/pipe/chimney set up.

As to the cigarette smoke, daughters boyfriend smokes. The smell of it on him when he is around, does nothing to enhance his standing in my eyes. I think of it as going out and stomping in a couple dog piles and then coming in the house. "What I stepped in it outside not in the house, what's the problem ?"

 

[sourland]

Will the smoke detector need to have a certified 'nose'?

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

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[JP101010]

LIVE AND LET LIVE - Cigarettes do not effect judgment or ability to perform like alcohol and drugs so who would care if they have a cigarette??besides I def. DO NOT want a nicotine fiend RN Stabbing me in the vein after shes gone 7 hours without a cig!

These people work really hard under high stress so im sure the need for a cigarette is even greater. as long as they are washing their hands after and leaving the pack in their purse/locker then its fine by me.
BTW I am a smoker & I work at an Animal Emergency Clinic ( animals dont comment about what you smell like and they dont do that "fake cough" by the front door when your on a cig break

 

[A.T. Hagan]

They should then also ban all perfumes, colognes, scented deodorants/antiperspirants, and anything else that forces other people to breathe the odors that people choose to douse themselves with. It's the same principle.

 

[sparkles2307]

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As an allergy sufferer, I can tell you that the only two things I inhale that cause violent immediate reactions is cat dander and cigarette smoke/fumes/aftersmell whatever. There are a million and one smells that DON'T cause a problem for me, and when I'm in a hospital of all places I shouldnt have to wear a mask because I might inhale cat or smoke. I should feel safe in the hopsital, not think I may seize up and quit breathing at any moment because a nurse might lean over me all covered in smoke. it also makes them look very unprofessional when they stink like that.

ETA: I smoked a pack a day and dealt with the allergies for a long time till I figured out that if I stopped I'd feel better. I was a smoker when I delievered my children and can tell you that even as a smoker I was not pleased that the nurse handling my newborn smelled of smoke. I never smoked in the house or car and had a coat to wear that went in the garage to keep the smell to a minimum on my self so my kids wouldnt be around it.