(excerpt) The powerful and wealthy Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [RWJF], which receives virtually all its billions from stock ownership in pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, has been a big player and a major source of funding for anti-smoker programs and grants ever since Johnson & Johnson began to market nicotine replacement products. Basically, RWJF funds any study or program that will raise the price of cigarettes and promote the use of "cessation" products (such as J&J's Nicotrol). The foundation is also big on promoting smoking bans, no doubt in the hope that more smokers will try to quit smoking and purchase "nicotine replacement" products.
Not content with attempting to ban smoking in the workplace, in restaurants and bars, and on virtually all modes of public transportation, the anti-tobacco/pharmacological cartel is now campaigning to ban smoking in facilities for the elderly.
people are not well in nursing homes....they don't need smoke filtering around ....
plus, people WORK in nursing homes...unless you are prepared to pay untold millions and millions to workers required to be around smoke...
of course, you will say..." they can just get another job"...well, SOMEBODY has got to work in nursing homes.....its labor intensive you know.....
One would think that federal regulations would trump county regulations. If the nursing home loses Medicaid and Medicare funding, it'll be a fairly empty nursing home.
This is what ya get when ya demand that the gummint micromanage every aspect of everybody's daily life:
"Everything that's not forbidden is required" translates to "Dam#ed if you do, and dam#ed if you don't"
The most dangerous phrase in the English language is still: "There oughtta be a law"...
Disaster awaits, stay tuned.
It is dangerous to allow smoking. This should be a safety issue.
It doesn't matter. The nursing home is now their home, and they're at an age, and state of health, where quiting a life long habit isn't going to do any good. Also, these people have little else to do, so allow them to do what makes them happy, for what little time they have left.
Hi SheLion!
Thanks to you I've been syo'ing for almost a year now. No taxes to federal, state or city governments.
Not too surprising that the cost of using the gum is roughly equivalent to that of smoking. If they really wanted people to quit they'd sell it cheap.
There was a similar rule about alcohol in my great aunts nursing home. She started each day with a shot of blackberry brandy for years.
My Dad and uncle would take turns smuggling it in.