Guest guest Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 No need to apologise for your lovely caring message about poor people dying...But sickly is not same as " scary " , right? >Saoirse Soya <saoirse_soya > > >Re: Smoking debate via other thoughts >Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:58:50 -0700 (PDT) > > >Just 'butting' in.... sorry... I used to work in a hospital as a teenage >volunteer and there were these scary/sickly people spending their last days >together all with terminal lung cancer and advanced emphysema in this one >ward. They were allowed to drink beer through straws and as some of them >could only breathe through a trachea tube, they were so shattered, the >nurses used to put the cig into the trachea tube so they could enjoy a few >puffs in their last days of life. It was pretty horrifying but the nurses >carried this out with humour, love and dignity. This was in the 70s in a >small town in Canada. I doubt if it would still happen now. Hopefully >there's cannabis and hemp beer now. Strange world. > slg edith <slgedith wrote:You sick a-hole, if a smoker is >already DYING of cancer -- maybe dead in a >few days! -- what good will it do to take away little relief of smoking >(preferably cannabis)???? > >Even condemned criminals get last cigerette I thought! > > >At st geoges hospital in Tooting they have a smoking room for the >incurable > >cancer patients.I looked in and saw people of all ages smoking, I find >that > >diabolical, and only warped logic could justify it.> > > > >Simon > > >_______________ >Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/mobile > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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