It is my belief that every hospital in our City of Tampa, should be Smoke Free Enviroments. It would be an excellent idea to have every hospital in our nation be Smoke Free as well...
...I am a former smoker. Smoked since I was thirteen ears of age. I would often steal the smokes from Kinfolk or got them from friends who would do the same. As soon as I got my first job I began to purchase my own. Seems to me that smoking was a part of being in the cool scene as televsion host's smoked on air, jocks and cowboys promoted them, baseball players and coaches smoked them in the dug out. Folks were permitted to smoke in planes and trains. Folks could smoke in their hospital beds and in the corridors of hospitals. I can still remember seeing the ash trays attached to walls through out every hospital and their elevators. There were no smoke free resturants or smoke free zones. Heck, I remember when it was okay to smoke in movie theaters and super markets. Commercials on television were popular and one could win nice prizes by entering contests. There would be free gifts with purchase, such as ball caps, t-shirts, and the what-not's that smokers wanted to have back in the day...
...as a society things have changed over the past couple of decades. I quit smoking approxitmatly three to four years ago. My bride much longer than I
and I was the one who would give her hassles for her smoking habits while I had my own routines.
The point? Health Care Professionals are still smoking. It's their right if that's what they want to do and yes, it's true, as time moves on more and more hospital's are mandating No Smoking, but for us former smokers there's a long ways to go yet. There's still too many Medical Establishments that permit smoking on campus.
One of two things that itches my ass is when I have to enter doctors offices, clinic's and or hospitals where a group of folks are puffig away. These are the doctors and nurses and their staff who are major influences on all who see them. From the impressionable children and young folks to those of us who have given the habit away for a better state of health...
...as for I, I have grown repulsed by the smell of smoke. Cigars, pipes and cigarettes - especially cigars because the scent triggers flashbacks and ugly memories of childhood abuse.
The number two and maybe even switch this back to number one, is when my Respiratory Therapists, Nurse Techs's, or an R.N., smoke their smokes then return to work without washing their hands. Placing their filthy hands in my face to take my temperature or to dispense of my medications with the hands that smell of smoke. Their hair and clothes absorb the stench and in worst case scenerio have someone lie about their habit to my face as they have their hand in front of my nose smelling the tar and nicotine.
I am an at risk person due to my pulmonary ill status. Every person who does not smoke is at risk as we walk through the smoke to gain entrance or exit a building. I simply will not do business with establishments that permits smoking inside the business. I don't have to, you see?
As far as my home, there is no smoking permitted in doors. We have a nice screened in porch in the East Wing and our guests have an ash tray there for their smoking enjoyment and or pleasure.
NOTE: Medical personal, please wash your hands after every smoke. Washing hands is a requirement and policy any ways. It's called Universal Precautions.
I've said enough. I'll say no more.
p.s. Just know I am going to tell it to your face in my face to please wash your really smelly dirty hands.
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