Smoking and Health Care

[aztecwin]

Here is a link that suggest that patients be forced to quit before and after surgery.

www.thelocal.se/23528/20091127/

I suggest that being smoke free for good be a condition of receiving health care or health insurance of any kind as a cost containment measure.

[uwaztec]

Nov 29, 2009 11:52:55 GMT -8 aztecwin said:

Here is a link that suggest that patients be forced to quit before and after surgery.

www.thelocal.se/23528/20091127/

I suggest that being smoke free for good be a condition of receiving health care or health insurance of any kind as a cost containment measure.

My wife's cousin is on his 4th failed back surgery. Fusions that did not fuse. He's a heavy smoker and has never quit. The oxygen uptake in blood / bone necessary for surgeries like this to succeed are known to be compromised by smoking. It must kill surgeons (except they still get paid) to perform a lot of these surgeries knowing they have a high possibility of failing.

[aztecwin]

Nov 29, 2009 16:07:35 GMT -8 uwaztec said:

Nov 29, 2009 11:52:55 GMT -8 aztecwin said:

Here is a link that suggest that patients be forced to quit before and after surgery.

www.thelocal.se/23528/20091127/

I suggest that being smoke free for good be a condition of receiving health care or health insurance of any kind as a cost containment measure.

My wife's cousin is on his 4th failed back surgery. Fusions that did not fuse. He's a heavy smoker and has never quit. The oxygen uptake in blood / bone necessary for surgeries like this to succeed are known to be compromised by smoking. It must kill surgeons (except they still get paid) to perform a lot of these surgeries knowing they have a high possibility of failing.

The really sad thing about smoking is that just about all smokers know the harm and want to quit. They just can't. Maybe having being smoke free a condition for getting any health care service at all would be incentive enough.