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Can a doctor refuse to treat a patient if you smoke?
Physicians are discouraged from refusing treatment simply because they disagree with their patients’ decisions or lifestyles. The authors contend that active smoking is not an appropriate basis for refusal of therapeutic treatment.
Can a job deny you for smoking cigarettes?
Although laws vary from state to state, employers are generally prohibited from either refusing to hire or firing an employee for using any type of tobacco product during non-working hours and off of the employer’s property. Most of these laws were first enacted in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Under what circumstances does a health care professional have the right to refuse treatment to a patient?
There are three general contexts in which it is permissible and sometimes obligatory to refuse care: when doctors are subjected to abusive treatment, when the treatment requested is outside a doctor’s scope of practice, or when providing the requested treatment would otherwise violate one’s duties as a physician, such …
Can I ask an applicant if they smoke?
You can only ask questions directly related to an applicant’s potential job performance, so while you can’t ask if he smokes, you can ask if he’s even been disciplined for violating a company policy regarding smoking.
Is it illegal to discriminate against smokers?
Although there’s no federal prohibition against discriminating based on smoking (being a smoker is not a protected class in any federal regulation), more than half of states do have some form of prohibition of exactly that. Some states outright prohibit discriminating against tobacco users.
Is smoking a right?
The U.S. and California constitutions guarantee certain fundamental rights and protect certain classes of persons from all but the most compelling government regulation. However, no court has ever recognized smoking as a protected fundamental right nor has any court ever found smokers to be a protected class.
Does a patient have the right to refuse care?
Every competent adult has the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment. This is part of the right of every individual to choose what will be done to their own body, and it applies even when refusing treatment means that the person may die.
How can you tell if someone smokes or not?
Tell-tale signs of smoking
- Stains. Nails and fingers: Nails and fingers of smokers may take a yellow stain due to repeated exposure to smoke and tar in smoke.
- Burns.
- Skin changes.
- Smell of smoke.
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