i understand why we wouldn't be allowed to smoke in some work places, IE - Take it outside.
granted, this sucks in the wintertime or in the rain, but we as smokers are giving ourselves lung cancer, do we really give a shit about some friggin' rain?
our bodies are made up of water, our planet is made of water, we take showers and baths, and at most places of work you have to wash your hands a lot anyway.
is it fair to make smokers smoke outside? totally, you don't want to have a fire start, or for the product to get ruined, or for the guy at the desk next to you to cough while you're on the phone making that big sales pitch, and then have it fall though because you cant even hear what the dude is saying.
damnit jim, if you could've only stopped coughing i'd be your boss right now and would totally be shacking up with linda from accounting, damn she was hot. (that was a joke, laugh)
is it fair to subject non-smokers to the harmful cancers of our smoking? no its not, its our choice to smoke, so we have to live with it, why push it onto other people? they aren't pushing their god onto me, so im not going to push my cancer onto them. (yes, that is my "go to" whenever someone starts speaking about god, i light up)
but, hospitals shouldn't say "well you smoke so you cant work here", i don't know about everyone else's hospitals, but at the ones 'round here we have a room for smoking, i don't spend a lot of time at the hospital, because why would i want to?- So i don't know if the doctors and nurses there smoke, but we've got the room, and they've got the stressful job. so it would only be fair if they were allowed.
but you know, that's just what i think.
Originally posted by Bardock42What about you know, social services, because surely, the government owns them.
Smoking, because of the potential risks to others is actually one of the drugs I could see myself supporting such a thing. However I think that is should ultimately be up to the owner of a particular place, for example a bar or restaurant.
I looked into it, up here in ontario, its goes like this, For hospitals anyway.
In health facilities, smoking areas must be enclosed and separated from the rest of the building. Air in the area must exhaust to the outside with a ventilation rate of 30 litres per second per person.
Hospitals may have more than one designated smoking room for in-patients. The room must be set aside specifically for smoking.
Smoking on the grounds of health facilities is allowed, but only at a distance of at least nine metres from any entrance.
pretty standard stuff i should think,
But i cant find anything about our doctors not being allowed to smoke.