Smoking

I like the arch shaped door tops. Something you dont see everyday.

you can actually smoke in the hospital? You sure as hell can't do that in the US

I bet it said NO SMOKING but some idiot peeled it off

More than likely back then you could smoke in designated areas. Even here up until sometime in the 80's there were areas in hospitals where people could still smoke.

Joe, ==A==, You could smoke anywhere back then. You guys gotta be kinda young. I was smoking at my desk at work right into the 80's. People smoked in GROCERY stores, hospitals, work, bars, SCHOOLS.....it didn' matter....

Many mental health units in the UK retain indoor smoking areas; there's currently a debate on whether this should be stopped but a recent poll of NHS mental health staff showed a majority of them opposed a ban.

Okay what was with this shade of green? In many of these abandoned asylums the colors are either: sterile white, puke yellow, peptobismol pink or this kind of peas green. Is there a reason for this?

I know you knew this Tony C. but let's not forget planes. Like you said, anywhere.

Smokes on Planes.

in severalls one of the seclusion rooms had been designated the smoking room - how comfortable!

Ok I can understand how non-smokers don't want us evil smokers to blow smoke right at them...but just give us something...a friggin broom closet, anything. No as punishment (like an early cancerous death isn't enough) we have to be shunned outside where it's usually freezing, raining, snowing, windy, or a combination of all four.

I have completed my rant for the day...I apologize and will from here on keep myself in check...

By the way great shot Motts!

SMOKING
[ROOM]
It would fit below so perfectly.

Random thought... why DO airplanes still have light-up no-smoking signs, and ashtrays in the armrests and bathrooms? I've never known a time when you were allowed to smoke on plane. Imagine having to sit next to a smkoer on a 6 hour flight? Yeuch ;-(

There still exist smoking areas in at least some psychiatric facilities.

They still let us smoke at Sheppard Pratt hospital (outside) on 15 minute breaks 6 times a day up until they built the new hospital and the freaking rules changed. (this coming from an ex-smoker)

I was born in the 80s so must have missed most of the "smoking areas" you can still smoke in some restuarants, but thats about it. I remeber having to complete 6 pages of paperwork just to get a pass to smoke outside the hospital in upstate NY. I was on the 6th floor and I would have to go down to the ground floor and needed a pass to get there. This was in 03. Its amazing how things change

You also have to remember that a lot of mentally ill people do smoke themselves. Schizophrenics have been known to be chain smokers because the nicotine calms down their brain a bit. So it's not unusual to find a smoking room in a psychiatric hospital at all.

Erin, my Schizophrenic grandmother used to be a chain smoker. And you are right, it did quiet her voices and calm her for a short time. Later when drugs got better and they discovered the ills of smoking, she quit. I give her a lot of credit, it had to have been hard to do with all of the problems she was having at the time. Most of the institutions she was in had designated smoking rooms for the patients.

Up here in Canada you were/are allowed to smoke in hospitals in a designated area. They have an inside section and an outisde section/courtyard. I'm not sure if they still do since allt he anti-smoking stuff, but when my dad was in the hospital and I visited, thats where he would go to smoke (much against his doctors wishes lol).

Love the door color, and it's shape.

here in wales they only in the last few years stopped you smoking in hospitals. most had smoking rooms like this. i love this picture!

So let's all go have a smoke!!!!!!

Here's a quit smoking fact:
Packs of cigarettes run at about $7.00 in Michigan for the name brand type.

In Alabama we are still at only around $3.45 per pack. I want to open a place that requires that you be a smoker to come in. Make a private club for smokers only. Your pass to get in would be that you smoke in front of the doorman/woman or you can't enter (keeps out fakers)

also keeps out the whinning ex smokers, and health nuts.

Whoa C-Note, you are buying them at the wrong place dear, they are only $5

In Canada, I was shocked to pay $12 for the generics.

I'm happy I don't smoke......but to each his or her own. We all have our vices......

If you're on a plane that still has the ashtrays and "no smoking" signs on the seatback, that's a strong clue as to the age of the plane. As late as 1992 one could still smoke on international flights, and I think also on domestic flights of more than two hours' duration.

Many older psychiatric patients smoke because back in the days before Thorazine, hospitals tended to *encourage* smoking for the small benefits patients seemed to derive from nicotine, and also as "bribes" to get a patient to do what the staff wanted.

I have never smoked myself, but I think people are taking the "non-smoking agenda" too far. I have lived in countries, worked in offices, and been part of social groups where I was the "odd" one because I didn't smoke. I prefer non-smoking environments, but I'm not so fanatical about it that I would presume to tell other adults what they can do and where they can do it. I would rather have an indoor smoking room than have to make my way through a thick cloud of smoke and piles of discarded cigarette butts to get in the front door of a building.

Now they are setting up regulations that ban smoking even in bars and introducing bills to prohibit smoking in one's own private vehicle if there is a child in the car. It kind of reminds me of the poem about the Nazis that talks about how first they came for the Jews, then they came for the homosexuals, then for the communists, etc. "but I said nothing because I was not Jewish, gay, communist, etc" and ends with the line "Then they came for me, and there was no one left to say anything." When we restrict the rights of others, it's only a matter of time until we lose our own rights.

Florida Jen, no offense, but if you didn't stick a cig in your mouth in the first place you wouldn't be outside where its windy and raining. NO OFFENSE!!!!!!! just saying in a non-smart ass way. try to quit, mmk? its bad for you.

damm right folraida jane damm not smoker . if thay dont like the smoke let theme live in a damm platic bubble

thank you florida jan

the light colours on the walls in asylums are to dull or calm the mind as opposed to bright colours which would stiulate the patient. i know this because my mum is a psychiatric nurse.

up until about 10 years ago you could smoke in all hospitals in england and wales.