[edpc]

The oxygen safety issue is a non-starter.

The oxygen safety issue is a (fire) starter. It only takes one incident (which I am sure has occured at least once in the many nursing homes) to make everyone wonder why it was ever allowed in the first place.

[peyton randolph]

It only takes one incident (which I am sure has occured at least once in the many nursing homes) to make everyone wonder why it was ever allowed in the first place.

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To reiterate, that is why nursing homes have smoking lounges. They usually round up all of the smokers and have a nurses aide watch them during smoking breaks. The residents then return to rooms or other activities. The cigarettes and lighters are kept at the nurse's stations. There is no safety issue because the homes don't let residents smoke in their rooms.

 

 

[Modok]

What about the water safety issue. There is running water in these places that the patients could drown in. Damn safety loon. Besides we should be filing down all the sharp points so they don't puncture themselves. Speaking of sharp points, come over here and let me run my file over the top of your head.

[Left2Right]

I remember the first time I watched someone on oxygen smoking a cigarette. It was about 30 years ago in a hospital section (back when even the patients could still smoke in hospitals) for the terminal cancer patients and I thought it was the craziest thing at the time. The guy would take a puff on his cigarette, wheeze a little, then take a whiff or two of oxygen, wheeze some more, then take another puff on his cigarette. I mentioned it to a couple of the nurses since I thought it had to be pretty dangerous; they just shrugged their shoulders like it wasn't a big deal, said it happens all the time.

[SheLion]

The oxygen safety issue is a (fire) starter. It only takes one incident (which I am sure has occured at least once in the many nursing homes) to make everyone wonder why it was ever allowed in the first place.

Are you dense or what!  Can't you read where the home used to have a smoking room?  Do you really think they had OXYGEN in that room? heh!

Mrs Mock said the home used to have a small room where smokers could light up. But she said the smoking ban in the building has now been enforced for health and safety reasons.

[Donald Meaker]

Oxygen therapy is conducted with either hoses internally, or in a tent. The Oxygen in the room is the same as normal concentration.

[cajun-jack]

Well, hell, burn 'em up or blow 'em up!!! Living that long is costing the hell outta you and me...Just kill 'em outright!!!