[maica]

When our hospital was built, sensors were put in every bathroom. For a few years, visitors or patients regularly set off the alarms when they tried to sneak a cigarette. Eventually, everyone coming into the hospital learned that a cigarette could not be smoked without detection.

At the same time, on the unit where high-risk mothers-to-be were hospitalized, a special room for smokers had to be built, to accomodate addicts who could not get to an outdoor location for their cigarette.

It was comically pathetic to see women, hospitalized because of potential danger to their baby, often attached to an IV drip, perched in a room (glass-fronted, smoke proof - as full of smoke as the back room of an unventilated laundry), puffing away.


I certainly think that if Shannon wants to keep this Air Rianta contract, they can provide a special room for our troops.

[SheLion]

a special room for smokers had to be built, to accomodate addicts

Addicts!