This and waiting for Ronnie to end the world with the push of a button.
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I'm old and I remember people smoking on airplanes and in hospitals. An older nurse has told me she remembers staff smoking in the nurse's station, and another older nurse told me she used to follow the pediatrician she worked with around the hospital trying to catch his ashes in an ashtray while he rounded on sick children. My own parents used to make us ride in the car with the windows rolled up smoking like fiends.
Oh man, I remember the first time I was in a hospital to visit someone as a kid and going down to the cafeteria and seeing doctors and nurses down there smoking. It was weird to me even then.
Patients these days vape in their hospital beds!
I wouldn't use anything that I have to breath out into a hospital room but I will say I bring my off brand zyn when I get put in for more than a night. All my local will give you is a 2mg nicorette every 2 hours and you have to ask each time. It's absolutely torture to be withdrawing in a hospital.
Some hospitals will give you nicotine inhalers which help much more.
GOOD. TO. FUCKING. KNOW! I have something super wrong with my gut and end up in there for days at a time a few tiya year lately. Sucks.
In my hospital we do it. We have a ward where the patients can't leave the room at any time because they're there for continuous diagnostic testing, so this is how they keep the smokers in place.
Seriously? That's allowed?
It depends. Might be against hospital policy, but it also depends on the circumstances and staff that catch you.
Get caught vaping nicotine after surgery while on oxygen and an RN catches you? Problem.
Get caught vaping THC, not on oxygen on oncology/hospice? Depends on the staff whether they'll notice it or not.
No, they just do it when nobody is looking.
The library my wife runs has detectors in the bathroom that let them know if someone is vaping in there, so hospitals might too these days.
They don't. Source-worked in hundreds of hospitals.
Funny. You would think if a library does it, hospitals would. But then I guess most hospitals are run by corporations that don't want to spend any more money than they absolutely have to.
Also management of smaller municipal libraries can be influenced far more directly by local communities.
E.g. a few parents show up to city council meeting concerned re: teens vaping in bathrooms, request installation of multifunction detectors, line item is <$500, council agrees, done.
Hospitals on the other hand are often privately owned, the expense is higher, and the board has little incentive to open the floor to the public in the first place.
Not to mention that the moment the H in Healthcare is mentioned the price just increased a signifanct amount.
Not only are there signifanct legislative restrictions but also everything is just expensive when it comes to a hospital (barring things that are heavily subsidized, like diapers, for example).
Those things don't work.
Source: vaped in damn near every bathroom I've used for the last 13ish years.
They work in my wife's library because she's told me about it.
I mean I could see if someone was chucking clouds it may set it off. But if you vape discretely they can't sense the difference between a vape or someone with too much deodorant. Guaranteed tonnes of people Vape in the library your wife works at and get away with it.
And any furniture you moved showed you the original color of the wall and how the smoke had yellowed everything