• kungen@feddit.nu
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    The booths will be equipped with lock sensors which detect smoke. When smoke in such booths disappears, the doors will be automatically unlocked and defiant smokers can then leave the booths, he wrote.

    Why not? If it’s too hard to leave the hospital to smoke, then what’s the problem with having a smokeroom?

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        Maj Gen Dr Rienthong Nanna, the director of the private hospital in the capital’s Laksi district, wrote on his Facebook account on Sunday that he would use previously donated public telephone booths to discipline anyone who defies the smoking ban at his hospital.

        At least they were donated booths.

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        Yes but rates are very high in Asia so you have to work with what you currently have.

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        Smokers have options. They can not smoke, smoke in the booth, or walk 50 feet away from the hospital to smoke.

        Why should sick people be inhaling their tar breath?

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            2 months ago

            I’m not entirely sure you’d want someone smoking around a large supply of oxygen, either.

            To be serious, though, I’ve seen some places where they seal the entryway to a dedicated smoking room a bit better and vent the smoke outside. I feel like that would be safer/more practical than smoking booths.

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              If you actually “lock people in a closed phone booth sized space until the smoke is gone”, you are absolutely taking a significant risk of someone dying. You need airflow to replace oxygen in a space that small.

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                Given that it’s a hospital, I doubt that they’d be using anything that’s likely to kill someone.

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                  Read what he’s describing. He’s basically saying “fuck smokers, they get what they get”. “Fuck smokers” is fine, but if you’re deliberately trying to trap them in a tiny, contained room that you’re not circulating air through, they will be deprived of oxygen.

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            2 months ago

            You’re talking about people who are willing to smoke inside a hospital around patients even though they are not allowed. Also nothing like a phone booth is airtight.

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              Yes they do. All the time. It’s only condensed sources of oxygen that superheat. That’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about a locked room that only holds a couple minutes of breathable air he wants to keep air from flowing through and keep people from breathing.

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    he would use previously donated public telephone booth

    who is donating used telephone booths to a hospital

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    If they called them “hot boxes” instead of “gas chambers,” i think the public support might be stronger.

    “Hey Chad, we’re going light up this joint and gas chamber Alex’s car, want in?”

    just doesn’t work as well.