Friday, June 30, 2006

Hospitals should set an example on smoking

Second hand smoke has been proven to be one of the leading killers, and the fact that we allow it in so many public places is harming more than a few people. Even though most hospitals have smoke free facilities, all a worker or visitor has to do is step one foot out the door and light one up, allowing all the fumes to get in and still harm the patients. Now my question is why are places like this allowing this on their grounds?

1 comment:

Greg Delemeester said...

Molls...your hyperlink to the Marietta Times article is not working...please edit to enter a working link.

By the way, is there real evidence that second hand smoke causes significant health problems in non-smokers? How do such studies measure this impact? In general, I am quite suspicious of reports of second-hand smoking ills.