Doctors giving you a hard time about smoking

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Originally Posted by mash

That anesthesiologist has likely seen hundreds of people on his table that are there because they have smoked.

Perhaps, but... smoked cigars? Doubtful.

Originally Posted by mash

To attribute other motives to what he is doing, calling him a hypocrite, comparing general anesthetic agents to tobacco etc. is just dumb.

I said it was ironic.

It's not the anesthesiologist's job to try modifying the patient's behavior immediately before surgery. His job is to make sure the patient goes under & wakes up. If cigar smoking has a bearing on that, then certainly he has a need to know. But it doesn't sound like the lecture was necessary, as Waynegro1 points out.