Some workplaces will try to snuff out tobacco use.
Jump to full article: Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune, 2007-04-06
Author: DAVID GULLIVER
Intro: Nancy Angelo started smoking 20 years ago. You could say she should have known better: She had just become a nurse.
Nursing, though, was one of the reasons -- "the stress factor," she said.
She had just finished a cigarette behind Sarasota Memorial Hospital, where she manages a ward handling some of its most complicated cases.
But she will not be able to enjoy that break for long. Sarasota Memorial, seven other hospitals, and the county health departments in Sarasota, Charlotte and DeSoto counties will announce today that their campuses are going tobacco-free.
Angelo and the half-dozen co-workers from across the hospital, congregating at tables with rusty coffee-can ashtrays as centerpieces, welcomed the news.
"If we're going to be promoting wellness, we're going to have to walk the walk," Angelo said.
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