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Originally Posted by tspikes51
I just can't stand seeing doctors and nurses in scrubs outside the hospital smoking. You represent good health, and you shouldn't advocate bad health in such an obvious way.
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Why shouldn't you? I don't see it as advocating or promoting bad health, it's more like exercising one's self-determination. Because you smoke means you can't be a health practitioner? What if you're the most gifted, talented surgeon on earth, who just happens to have a nicotine habit? I can see how you might say it's hypocritical of a doctor to be offering smoking cessation programmes to his smoking patients, if he himself is a smoker, but on the other hand, you have the option, actually, no, the
right to ignore him. Bearing in mind he's a medical professional, don't you think he knows even more acutely what he's doing to himself by lighting up? Who, then, are you to say he shouldn't?