Hospital to ban odor of smoke on workers' clothes.

[JulieNKC]

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x2 Why should they be allowed to pick and choose what is banned? I guess it's private property, they can do as they like but I think it's going entirely too far.

 

[goobhen]

Some hospitals are giving their employees five years to stop smoking, it ties into their health benefits. If the employee lies about being a smoker and is found out, they can be terminated. Wonder what happens when the five years are up? Just glad I do not smoke, now if coffee is determined to be bad for your health, then I am in BIG trouble!!

 

[Marcymom3]

As a reformed smoker, I have come to hate the smell of cigarette smoke whether on clothes, wafting along on a breeze, and on peoples' breath. It is embarassing to think I smelled like that! Maybe I am older than most folks on BYC, but I remember our family doctor smoking while he was seeing patients and seeing his ashtray overflowing with butts on his desk. Also remember going to the office for my teacher in elementary school and the school secretary was smoking at her desk. We've come a long way, haven't we?

 

[heatherindeskies]

I would LOVE to see my nursing home facility forced to go smoke free!! Not because I dislike smokers or the cigs (i used to smoke a bit and even like the smell of a single cigarette) or have a complaint about the smell of clothing or what-not, or even that i have to clean out ash trays. That all doesn't bother me. What I hate and I mean HATE HATE HATE are the irresponsible smokers who think the world is their ash tray and throw butts anywhere. I'm the one who has to pick each one up at my facility due to another's utter laziness and disrespect and did i mention I HATE it????? I mean WHO does this crap and thinks it is OK to just toss butts on the ground, anywhere they feel like it? Somebody had to pick those up!

Staff and residents do it and nobody seems to care. I can only hope a small fire starts sometime or a lit butt is tossed on somebody and causes a burn... that is the only way I see this changing for the facility. Maybe i will send some of this info to our administrator......

 

[heatherindeskies]

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Mountain Dew is my poison of choice!

 

[Royd]

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The fashion police will take you down.

 

[PotterWatch]

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Exactly!!! I go into homes where people smoke....A LOT. They don't even smoke when I'm there but the toxic residue in the walls and furnishings of their homes is so strong that all my clothing and hair reek after a half hour visit. I then smell like I've been smoking... the fumes are that strong and persistent.

It's not really about smell at all, it's about air quality. People with compromised breathing can't handle fumes of this kind without difficulty. Smokers have adapted to poor air quality and function just fine....well... until they too die from it.

One of the ladies in my office burns cinnamon candles...I LOVE the smell but they give me an instant asthma attack wherein my throat starts to close off and I have to use a bronchodilator(inhaler or nebulizer treatment) to breathe easily once again.

Smokers are so used to breathing these deadly fumes they have no idea how much people around them suffer from them as well. I've been a nurse for a long time and have yet to see anyone go into respiratory distress from a fart...no matter how bad they can be!

Agreed. It's not about the odor, it's about what comes along with the odor.

 

[ozark_chickies]

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.

x2 I'd rather smell smoke than the things you list. Some of it causes me to gag.​

 

[Glenmar]

The hospital that I work in has a no smoking policy at work. You can not smoke on the hospital property or in your car.
They also have a policy about not wearing perfume or cologne.

 

[Glenmar]

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I remember people smoking on airplanes.