SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM

Did you look carefully at this picture? This was taken decades ago when hospital volunteers went to the bedside with a hospitality cart. They usually had candy bars, gum, magazines and do you see that little pack with the bullseye on it? Yes, (Lucky Strike and other) cigarettes. You could smoke in bed and even buy them in the hospital. This is a foreign idea now but it wasn't that long ago that hospitals quit doing this. Employees would also smoke in the hospital. When I was a student in the 60's some Drs. smoked while they sat at the desk writing orders. Most of the nurses smoked but we had to do it in the report room. Twenty years ago when I worked nights some of the nurses I worked with in Coronary Care smoked at the desk at night while they watched the heart monitors. The smoke circulated freely, probably into the patient's rooms who had recent heart attacks! This doesn't happen anymore, especially in Minnesota where nothing is permitted. The legislature is now trying to outlaw smoking in all public places. There are some municipalities where you cannot light up in a park. I no longer smoke but some smokers are offended. We have come a long way from buying them at the bedside in the hospital.

PS. Day 27. Still with the program. Curves is getting easy. I have hit a plateau and am anxious for that needle on the scale to start moving down again. Keep on keeping on Jane.