Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsstat!laura From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: what about the doctor's offices and hospitals? Message-ID: <905@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 00:40:48 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.905 Posted: Fri Aug 19 00:40:48 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Aug-83 01:08:42 EDT References: <1010@rlgvax.UUCP> dciem.289, <948@ittvax.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 31 When I get sick it is generally time to go to the hospital. i tend to ignore lesser sicknesses (which has the bad result that they sometimes get worse). In addition, i am blind in one eye and periodically walk into telephone poles and off the edges of ledges that I had not seen. I have spent a fair amount of time in hospitals, therefore, but almost no time in doctor's offices. In every Toronto Hospital I have been to (Toronto General, Sick Kids, Wellesley, St Michaels, North York, Scarbourough, Mount Sinai, Women's College Hospital) they try to have a no smoking section waiting room and a smoking section waiting room. When they run out of space (ie when you are in the innner vestibule of the inner vestubule of the one that you first got when you went throught the door into emerg) smokers and non-smokers are lumped together and have to fight it out among themselves. 5 years ago, my father, and several of his friends decided to quit smoking. (My father is on staff at Sick Kids ). he said at the time that the anaethetists and neuro surgeons (his cronies, being a neuro-anaethetist) were predominantly smokers. Many of them, of course, took up smoking before it was known to cause cancer in (certain) smokers. It is useful to remember that it is the LEGISLATION that I am opposed to. What people decide they want in their own (homes, offices, cars, et al.) is entirely their own affair. laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura