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The campus where I work is state property and is supposed to go "smoke free" as of June 2009.
Given the amount of nicotine consumed by mental health patients and mental health workers, I don't see this working easily.
We're already making plans on whose cars will be the designated smoking areas, and may continue to insist on use of the Butt Hutt, an enclosed courtyard off the chart room, since the only way for the State Police to monitor it would be to hover their chopper overhead, and they have a lot more important things to do, most days. Like botching a hostage situation and getting nurses killed.
In an interesting move, my hospital installed brand new ashtrays on the outside of the building the day after the upcoming ban was announced.
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