can a smoke free facility allow only certain people to smoke?

Question

i work at a nursing home that is attached to a hospital. the director announced that by next year it will be a smoke-free facility-like the hospital next door. only residents that smoke will be "grandfathered in" to be allowed to continue smoking on the property, not employees. the hospital next door allows NOONE to smoke on its property. is this discrimination on behalf of the nursing home?

i do not smoke and i don't want the residents to lose their privilege. i was questioning the discrimination part-some residents would be grandfathered into it, new residents would not be allowed (even though they pay and it is THEIR home too) along with the employees who smoke. is this another civil right we lose, you know, along with the right to PRIVACY in our personal lives?

Answer 1

Depends on who made the policy. A city ordnance would make it illegal for anyone to smoke. If the people that own it made it they can pick and choose. They will probably give you a smoking area but you'd be doing good if you quit the habit...

Answer 2

It is your place of employment, but it is your residents HOME.
I am sorry, but think about that for a moment. Everything these people have has been taken from them - their youth, their independence, their health......and now you want to take away their right to have a cigarrette in THEIR HOME!

You get paid to be there for 8 or 12 hours then go home - they PAY to be there and never get to leave. Sorry, but I side with the residents right to smoke in their OWN HOME! (or at the very least in a designated smoking area outside the facility).

Answer 3

Sounds to me that place is being bios. It should be all or nothing when it comes to the no smoking rule. Bring this up to the head honcho.

Answer 4

It is SMOKE FREE. Not partially smoke free. I don't think anyone should smoke there no matter how long they've worked there.