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Bangkok hospital director promises 'gas chambers' for defiant smokers (www.bangkokpost.com)

submitted 2 months ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] kungen@feddit.nu 64 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The booths will be equipped with lock sensors which detect smoke. When smoke in such booths disappears, the doors will be automatically unlocked and defiant smokers can then leave the booths, he wrote.

Why not? If it's too hard to leave the hospital to smoke, then what's the problem with having a smokeroom?

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's a lot of money wasted on idiots with a stupid habit

[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

Maj Gen Dr Rienthong Nanna, the director of the private hospital in the capital's Laksi district, wrote on his Facebook account on Sunday that he would use previously donated public telephone booths to discipline anyone who defies the smoking ban at his hospital.

At least they were donated booths.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Yes but rates are very high in Asia so you have to work with what you currently have.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Good point.

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

I see an absolute win

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because he's locking them in a room without air circulating.

[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Smokers have options. They can not smoke, smoke in the booth, or walk 50 feet away from the hospital to smoke.

Why should sick people be inhaling their tar breath?

[+] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

That doesn't give you a right to suffocate them.

A phone booth is not a large supply of oxygen.

[–] spamfajitas@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not entirely sure you'd want someone smoking around a large supply of oxygen, either.

To be serious, though, I've seen some places where they seal the entryway to a dedicated smoking room a bit better and vent the smoke outside. I feel like that would be safer/more practical than smoking booths.

[–] WEFshill202@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

But you can't smoke outside a hospital either.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

you know where there is a large supply of oxygen?

OUTSIDE

WHERE EVERY NORMAL SMOKER GOES

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These are not used to kill people...

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you actually "lock people in a closed phone booth sized space until the smoke is gone", you are absolutely taking a significant risk of someone dying. You need airflow to replace oxygen in a space that small.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Given that it's a hospital, I doubt that they'd be using anything that's likely to kill someone.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Read what he's describing. He's basically saying "fuck smokers, they get what they get". "Fuck smokers" is fine, but if you're deliberately trying to trap them in a tiny, contained room that you're not circulating air through, they will be deprived of oxygen.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You'll have a hard time convincing me that his plan is to kill anyone who smokes in his hospital.

Not only does it go against the whole point of a hospital, it's probably very illegal for him to kill anyone that way, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of his top staff are smokers. Not to mention that there'd have to be multiple people in on it during the installation and usage.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can't make them breathe all their smoke in if there's sufficient air circulation.

What he's describing can't not result in decreased access to oxygen.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you might be taking his words too literally

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What he's advocating is deranged so he must be joking?

He said what he said.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What ~~he's advocating is~~ his literal words are sound deranged so he must be ~~joking~~ speaking figuratively?

Yeah, that's usually how that works.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 months ago

No, that's not usually how it works. It's never how it works. This isn't satire. It's an actual proposal.

People advocating for unhinged bullshit do so because and only because they believe in it. There is no alternate interpretation of "lock people in a closed space with their smoke to punish them". If there was sufficient airflow the smoke would be gone in seconds.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You’re talking about people who are willing to smoke inside a hospital around patients even though they are not allowed. Also nothing like a phone booth is airtight.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fire and large sources of oxygen do not mix peacefully.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yes they do. All the time. It's only condensed sources of oxygen that superheat. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a locked room that only holds a couple minutes of breathable air he wants to keep air from flowing through and keep people from breathing.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Fire hazard? Nahhhhh

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

he would use previously donated public telephone booth

who is donating used telephone booths to a hospital

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What do you do with your used telephone booths?

[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone ever wonder how Superman actually changed in one of those things without destroying everything in there?

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

No. But I will now.

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

well i smoke in them.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

actually they would probably be a pretty good hotbox

Now I'm not sure if the Plan of the Hospital won't backfire

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

None of your business what I do with them!

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

I call my used telephone booth guy, of course.

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago

They have those at airports.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If they called them "hot boxes" instead of "gas chambers," i think the public support might be stronger.

"Hey Chad, we're going light up this joint and gas chamber Alex's car, want in?"

just doesn't work as well.