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Originally Posted by Brown Thrasher
No, I"m not a social engineer. However I have studied sociology extensively. Does that mean when a picture of a man in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank strapped to his wheelchair in a V.A. hospital is sitting there smoking a cigarette it is acceptable because our culture taught us it was o.k to smoke.
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As poignant an image as that is, most people fail to understand what the hospital is doing for their patient.
When you have a 75 year old guy, who has smoked for 60 years, dying of pretty darn much ANYTHING, you do things for the patient that are going to keep him relaxed and relatively calm and happy rather than only things that you think would be good for him.
People at the cancer center don't give their terminal patients shit over failing to quit smoking.