[Devil_Anse]

Wait a minute. This Ms. Campos is supposed to be a nurse? And she was taking a smoke break while at work?

That doesn't sound right to me. I don't know a single "higher-level" medical professional, such as a nurse or doctor, who smokes. This is not to say that maybe some of them might not have got hooked at an early age, and maybe succumb to smoking in privacy. But I just find it hard to believe that a nurse would be casually taking smoke breaks while working at the hospital. Besides, since when do nurses have that much time on their hands when at work?

The above is not an absolute. It's just my own experience, which is all I have to go by.

[onyx]

I'm married to an M.D. Trust me, a few of his colleagues still smoke. I have no personal knowledge regarding nurses.

[Velveeta]

(cough, cough, cough) I don't smoke anymore (tried it, inhaled, liked it, quit when I got pregnant), however I would guess that about 75% of the nurses that I know started smoking *during* nursing school.

Oh, the stress and the pressure!

[RGSpincich]

I may be wrong about the nurse thing. Diana Campos has worked at the hospital for nine years, though. I double checked and there is no mention of her being a nurse, my mistake.

[cyncooper]

I don't know a single "higher-level" medical professional, such as a nurse or doctor, who smokes.

I know several. It's more common than you'd think (in several states, too, not some wayward hospital,).