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Concerned of Nurses Smoking?
Hey, I was doing research for a topic about nurses who smoke, care to join in? All your answers are helpful. Please, feel free to specify if you've worked at a hospital as a nurse before or currently. Cheers!
1) Would you be concerned if your nurse smoked?
2) Are you concerned of indirect cigarette smoke passing from nurse to patient?
3) Would you be open to smoking bans at hospitals?
4) Are you in favor of the nurses’ right to smoke or are you in favor of patients’ health regarding the possible transmission of indirect cigarette smoke?
I forgot to add some background information/elaboration of what idirect smoke is. Indirect cigarette smoke includes both second-hand and third-hand forms. Third-hand smoke is latent, that is, it is the chemicals found in smoke remaining on a person's clothes. These chemicals have been found to brush off and form carcinogenic compounds in the air.
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- ?Lv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
1. I'm opposed to anyone smoking and if I could smell smoke on the person treating me I'd ask for another nurse.
2. no, it doesn't pass that way - they'd have to be actively smoking
3. There are smoking bans in most hospitals - I can't think of why any hospital would allow smoking on the premises.
4. No, I'm not in favor of anybody's right to smoke unless it is in the privacy of their own home or car - anyplace else should be illegal, and especially out in the street where it just pollutes the air, it's deadly. I lost a father, grandfather and almost a sister to lung cancer - I'm very anti-smoking.