• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    [off topic]

    I remember reading a story of patients smoking on the lung ward, circa 1930.

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      6 months ago

      I’ve known two respiratory therapists. They spend their days working with people suffering from emphysema and other smoking related ailments. Both of them smoked.

      People are weird.

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        6 months ago

        I used to work for a public health organization and spent a lot of time in hospitals.

        Nurses smoking outside the Emergency Room was something I saw every day