01-26-2017, 11:13 AM
(01-26-2017, 10:26 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(01-26-2017, 10:15 AM)chutten Wrote: A fire suppression system might work. It (theoretically) works on airplanes.
Or they could just build a proper smoking area for GRH patients. This whole “smokers don’t get anywhere to smoke” thing is out of hand. I’m not in favour of smoking being prevalent — it should be viewed as a disease, with a goal of elimination — but we’re now starting to provide places for users of many illegal drugs to do so safely so it’s unreasonable for a place like a hospital not to have a place where addicted patients can smoke.
They *used* to have a proper smoking area for GRH patients. In 2013 they removed it because smoking is bad and therefore shouldn't happen on hospital property, I guess the theory being that all smokers would just quit smoking if they didn't have a roof to do it under. The immediate consequence was that smokers just moved to the sidewalks and bus shelters. Before the iXpress shelters were removed, I'd often see multiple smokers occupying the bus shelter on the hospital side of King St.