Wash Your Hands After Smoking In a Hospital

We've all seen those "Employees Must Wash Hands" signs in restaurant rest rooms. And thank goodness they're there.

This rather detailed sign, however, was in a hospital restroom.

No, that's not exactly accurate. I found it in a hospital patient's restroom.

All of the bullet points are good advice, but What The Frisk is that fourth bullet? After smoking?

Let me just say again that this was found in a hospital patient's restroom. Next to it (but out of frame) was the obligatory "No Smoking" sign.

And, if that doesn't make you say "What The Frisk?!?" then consider, for a moment, that the entire hospital complex - inside and out - is plastered with "Tobacco Free Campus" signs.

That means that if a smoker followed the rules and walked off campus to inhale some cancer, s/he wouldn't see this sign until s/he was already inside the building and presumably contaminated multiple surfaces with smoky residue.

But if the smoker was a patient, then s/he would have to go down the hall, down the elevator, through the lobby, across two parking lots and finally to the grass outside the perimeter to take a drag. And then make the return trip. While wearing a hospital gown. Without being accosted by hospital staff.