This and waiting for Ronnie to end the world with the push of a button.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Oh man, I remember the first time I was in a hospital to visit someone as a kid and going down to the cafeteria and seeing doctors and nurses down there smoking. It was weird to me even then.

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        3 months ago

        I wouldn’t use anything that I have to breath out into a hospital room but I will say I bring my off brand zyn when I get put in for more than a night. All my local will give you is a 2mg nicorette every 2 hours and you have to ask each time. It’s absolutely torture to be withdrawing in a hospital.

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            3 months ago

            GOOD. TO. FUCKING. KNOW! I have something super wrong with my gut and end up in there for days at a time a few tiya year lately. Sucks.

            • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              In my hospital we do it. We have a ward where the patients can’t leave the room at any time because they’re there for continuous diagnostic testing, so this is how they keep the smokers in place.

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          3 months ago

          It depends. Might be against hospital policy, but it also depends on the circumstances and staff that catch you.

          Get caught vaping nicotine after surgery while on oxygen and an RN catches you? Problem.

          Get caught vaping THC, not on oxygen on oncology/hospice? Depends on the staff whether they’ll notice it or not.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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            3 months ago

            The library my wife runs has detectors in the bathroom that let them know if someone is vaping in there, so hospitals might too these days.

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                3 months ago

                Funny. You would think if a library does it, hospitals would. But then I guess most hospitals are run by corporations that don’t want to spend any more money than they absolutely have to.

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                  3 months ago

                  Also management of smaller municipal libraries can be influenced far more directly by local communities.

                  E.g. a few parents show up to city council meeting concerned re: teens vaping in bathrooms, request installation of multifunction detectors, line item is <$500, council agrees, done.

                  Hospitals on the other hand are often privately owned, the expense is higher, and the board has little incentive to open the floor to the public in the first place.

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                  3 months ago

                  Not to mention that the moment the H in Healthcare is mentioned the price just increased a signifanct amount.

                  Not only are there signifanct legislative restrictions but also everything is just expensive when it comes to a hospital (barring things that are heavily subsidized, like diapers, for example).

            • Steak@lemmy.ca
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              3 months ago

              Those things don’t work.

              Source: vaped in damn near every bathroom I’ve used for the last 13ish years.

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                  3 months ago

                  I mean I could see if someone was chucking clouds it may set it off. But if you vape discretely they can’t sense the difference between a vape or someone with too much deodorant. Guaranteed tonnes of people Vape in the library your wife works at and get away with it.