Smokers and pedophiles spoken of in same breath

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PEOPLE who smoke should be banned from working in the health system because it is akin to allowing convicted pedophiles to roam among children, a medical expert says.
Peter Beaumont, head of the Northern Territory branch of the Australian Medical Association, has lashed out at nicotine-addicted doctors and nurses, saying they should not be allowed to work with children or in indigenous communities.
"You wouldn't send pedophiles to work in an area where there were lots of children … so why shouldn't we limit people who have a very bad health habit? With everything else being equal, we should have a situation where a non-smoker should get the job over a smoker."
About 60 per cent of indigenous people smoke. "In some remote areas that can be as high as 80 per cent, and yet I constantly see groups of health workers standing around their four-wheel-drives all having a puff before they head off to see these people," Dr Beaumont said.
Simon Chapman, a professor in public health at the University of Sydney, said the call to discriminate against smoking employees was "pure myopia".
A spokeswoman for NSW Health said that staff were encouraged to quit smoking but they would not be subjected to any form of discrimination.

source: Smokers and pedophiles spoken of in same breath | smh.com.au


I posted this news piece here because it doesn't really relate to vaping.

 

[Sun Vaporer]

So Does that mean my Surgeon who smokes will no longer be able to operate--Come on--give us a break--this is ridiculous--Sun

 

[fenez]

Well i certainly hope that Mr. Beaumont does'nt ever need to be cared for in a hospital or some other health care facility where some nicotine addicted person works. cause that could quite possibly suck for him.

 

[taz3cat]

Ther are rabaid anti-mules in all lines of work. He must be a Doctor if he is the head of a Medcial ..., if I smoked I would not go to him because he would kill me with the wrong diagnosis, because I smoked.

 

[TropicalBob]

Fortunately, his opinion isn't yet law. But we already have physicians in the States who will no longer see smokers as patients. Quit or change doctors, they command. There are also movements afoot to deny transplants to smokers whose organs were damaged by smoking. They did it to themselves! They must pay the price for their foolishness. Fortunately, that bias isn't law -- yet. But the way things are going ....

This is all just a further demonizing of not just tobacco and nicotine, but smokers and those addicted to nicotine.

 

[Jest]

Why only smokers? They should ban people who are obese, drinkers, workaholics, and people who don't cover their mouths when they're coughing from working in health occupations too. Those aren't any less of a "very bad health habit".

 

[8-Ball]

Why only smokers? They should ban people who are obese, drinkers, workaholics, and people who don't cover their mouths when they're coughing from working in health occupations too. Those aren't any less of a "very bad health habit".

won't happen... too many politicians are fat and drink... and rarely close their mouths...

 

[nitewriter]

My Dr actually told me that if I didn't quit, he couldn't do any more for me.

 

[fenez]

How come tolerance is preached when it comes to everything & everyone? But when it comes to smokers discrimination is fine nomatter how ludicrous.

 

[OutWest]

welcome to the world that homosexuals face every day.

 

[TheEmperorOfIceCream]

Well, the world that homosexuals used to face every day, anyway. We eventually got legislation to outlaw discrimination by sexuality, but there isn't a snowflake's chance in hell of laws to protect us from discrimination on account of our addiction (which, let's face it, is a real unnatural practice).

 

[OutWest]

nice to hear that the UK is enlightened. Here in the states discrimination based on sexual orientation is still commonplace, unfortunately, and homosexuals and bisexuals routinely get compared to, and equated with being, pedophiles

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Really, comments like that are highly unprofessional, bring the medical profession into disrepute and should cost him his job.

 

[Calaban]

Man this guy really gets my nerves up.

I suppose he is the picture of perfect health practices right? Riiiiggghhhhht.......

So he never eats a hot dog, or has popcorn with butter and a soda at the movies right?

I bet he exercises regularly and never skips a day.

I'm sure all the food in his house is all natural, raw, organic, vegan. No red meat. No potato chips, candy bars, slim jims, etc.

He's perfect.

Smokers are below him.

Friggin .........

-Cal

 

[Spikey]

My Dr actually told me that if I didn't quit, he couldn't do any more for me.

Me too... I changed Doctors and now the laughs on him.. I quit smoking lol!

 

[Nuck]

homosexual smokers must have it rough!

 

[tribalmasters]

homosexual smokers must have it rough!

They do and I was one (a smoker that is)

 

[QueenInNC]

Man this guy really gets my nerves up.

I suppose he is the picture of perfect health practices right? Riiiiggghhhhht.......

So he never eats a hot dog, or has popcorn with butter and a soda at the movies right?

I bet he exercises regularly and never skips a day.

I'm sure all the food in his house is all natural, raw, organic, vegan. No red meat. No potato chips, candy bars, slim jims, etc.

He's perfect.

Smokers are below him.

Friggin .........

-Cal

I agree! Pig F***er!!

 

[LaceyUnderall]

I am so tired of the hate speech.

It is unbelievable that there are actually people in this world who feel they are superior to others. That is probably the most uneducated statement I have ever heard and I have heard quite a few!

PS... Love the cartoon by the way! It's fabulous and makes him look even more like an ...!

 

[surbitonPete]

I wonder when doctors will start to refuse to treat people who have been injured doing sports or driving cars?.....it's no different. A doctor isn't there to provide moral judgement ....he's just there to do whatever he can to fix you up..the same as a car mechanic.