I went to a club last night. There was a guy there that was carrying
oxygen. I talked to him and he said that he was a smoker for 60
years. He quit the day that they outfitted him with oxygen. I really
am not sorry for a guy like this. The only ways that you can get a
smoker like this to keep his smoke out of your face is either by
passing a law that prohibits smoking in a building or that his health
got so bad that he was forced to quit. I just remember the days where
I had to by respiratory medication and there was an a.shole smoking a
cigar in the pharmacy where I was buying my meds. I also remember the
many times my nose was clogged after haveing to be in a smoke filled
office. I had to breathe the smoke in order to keep my job. My
sinuses are open now but a cigarette in a closed room would change
that very quickly.
I worked as a Health Aide and I had a lady smoker that would not give up
smoking. Well her oxygen tank blew up and the fire traveled the whole
way up to her canula tubes.
She was gone when we got there.
The Visiting nurse had warned her many times that it was dangerous to
smoke around oxygen.
shirleyann
Fred - 08 Apr 2008 15:05 GMT
> I worked as a Health Aide and I had a lady smoker that would not give up
> smoking. Well her oxygen tank blew up and the fire traveled the whole
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> shirleyann
There was a case in Lutheran Hospital where a woman smoked in her
oxygen tank. When the fire broke out, they had to evacuate the entire
wing. I never did hear of what happened to the smoker. She probably
went up in smoke?????