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Originally Posted by Cantwaittoarrive
I remember visiting my Mother in law in the hospital in the late 70's (she was my girlfriends mother at the time) and she was sitting in her hospital bed smoking and her visitors would come in and smoke with her while visiting. The only rooms that didn't allow smoking were the ones with oxygen being used
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When I first began working at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Gainesville (1973), the patients were allowed to smoke in their beds on the wards. In fact, volunteers from the Canteen (gift store) wheeled carts to the wards so patients could buy cigarettes for $2.50 a carton (totally tax free). The VA employees could not buy cigarettes from the Canteen - just the patients. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?