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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:14 PM Original message |
Smoking bans backfiring at some hospitals: Study |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. no excuse for staff. patients oughta to get a big $ nicotine drip nt |
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rustydog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 08:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
43. Patients do NOT want a nicotine drip, nicotine patch, gum, pill |
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Chemisse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. My husband is supposed to have surgery, but keeps putting it off. |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I'm a smoker and was in for three days. I used the gum and a friend |
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Chemisse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. That sounds encouraging. I'd like my husband to use it on airplanes too. |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I've gone to Hawaii from Boston,and back with no problems at all. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #22 |
44. Patch ask for patch |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. How about nursing homes |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
4. Wouldn't a little nicotine in the IV line quell the craving? (nt) |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. Too bad we can't have legal pot because it's addictive.. |
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polly7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. I got locked out of Regina General Hospital. |
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. I spent 4 days hospitalized last year |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 08:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
45. WELL DONE, OUTOTN |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
8. Poor, poor smokers... |
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Th1onein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Until you are a smoker, or addicted to something else... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. A diabetic denied insulin can die. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. Standard unempathetic reply |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. I find it hard to believe that tobacco companies aren't providing the help that smokers need. |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. Solution: Designated smoking area. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. the hospital i went to had that. a pod for smokers. worked fine. it is the nanny that refuses to |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. So those of us who don't want to be exposed to that shit have to suffer? |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Do you, as an anti-smoking nazi, always hang out in designated smoking areas? |
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Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 10:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
30. Lol, smokers are so grumpy. |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 01:47 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. I'm not a smoker. n/t |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:32 PM Original message |
If you don't want to be exposed to it... |
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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. I'm exposed to the "high health risks" of your fucking car every single day. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Designated smoking areas |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. You would never have survived the 40s and 50s (as an adult).. |
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Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 10:34 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Gee, what else do you wish was like the 40s and 50s? |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
14. Hospitals should offer Personal Vaporizers and let the patients and guests VAPE! |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
16. one of the advantages I found in switching from cigarettes to cigars |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
18. I had a flurry of appts at the hospital a few months ago. I noticed many employees |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
20. The cravings make people do some really stupic things like go out in the freezing cold, in the rain |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:33 PM Response to Reply #20 |
40. Yeah, when I was working (which I am not any longer), |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
24. We treat it like the addiction it is |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
29. Yes, let's allow smoking in the hospital. |
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Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 10:32 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. sounds like that's what the idiots want |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
34. alcohol withdrawal can be fatal; nicotine withdrawal is not |
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Maine_Nurse (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Well, not in the classic sense. But... |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:21 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Have you ever seen an extremely psychotic smoker denied smoking? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Snort.. |
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JustAmused (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 08:11 PM Response to Reply #34 |
42. LOL |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
36. I would hike across the parking lot with a heart moniter to smoke a cigarette. |
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rox63 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
37. Have you ever seen an oxygen-dependent smoker who caught their face on fire from smoking? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 10:43 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. Yup, was the worry with dad |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
41. Just build smokers hospitals with two wings - |
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