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Blogs > Rentier1 > What? Me worry?


Rentier1
1652 posts
1/28/2015 7:28 am
Those law abiding Canucks...

Smoking has been banned on hospital grounds in Alberta for some years now, but it seems the enforcement is falling short, and Albertans are fragrantly violating the ban.

I was at the Royal Alexandra hospital in Edmonton a few days ago.

The main entrance has numerous signs prohibiting smoking anywhere on hospital grounds, and pointing out that the nearest place to smoke is the public sidewalk some 20 metres away.

Nevertheless, the area around the entrance was crowded with smokers, some of them hospital employees, and one guy in a hospital gown with an IV in his arm. Good thing for him it was above freezing.

Rentier1

1/29/2015 7:45 am
    Quoting lulugravy:
    I smoked once upon a time......but I lost interest with my first pregnancy. I sometimes joined groups of smokers who gather in congenial groups at the 40 ft. limit outside public buildings.....for the conversation......but occasionally I would have a cigarette......But since I helped nurse my ex husband through his last 5 months of metastasizing lung cancer, I just can't face it.......The only times I have a craving to light up is when I'm around those non-smoking nazis......their sanctimonious attitude has that perverse effect on me.. .
Sanctimonious?

Interesting.

Smoking kills far more people than drunk driving and illegal drugs combined.

Would you label someone 'sanctimonious' who denounced drunk drivers or heroin addicts?


Rocketship 80F
18567 posts
1/28/2015 4:27 pm

 While I was visiting my husband in the hospital, the fellow in the next bed was recovering from back surgery he'd had the day before. He was immobile so I helped him with his food.

The next day he asked if he could go out for a smoke. His doctor told him that if he was well enough to go down the hall to the elevator, and outside for a smoke that he was well enough to go home. The fellow said that he was, so the doctor discharged him.

What an addiction!!


Rentier1

1/28/2015 2:31 pm
    Quoting  :
I agree,

Smokers are far nicer people than the health Nazis who are always badgering people 'for their own good'.

Reminds me of nations who invade other nations to bring them democracy and rights for women.


Rentier1

1/28/2015 8:40 am
    Quoting  :
That would be real punishment since smoking is banned in Canadian prisons now as well.




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