I LOVE Non-Smokers

[Zanshin]

Makes sense.

[Tomahawk]

Makes fascist sense

[Zanshin]

Well, that's the first blush...I agree with that. But the business is about health, and smoking is clearly a step in the other direction. It's a slippery slope, though...because you could say the same thing about obesity. Are they going to ban obese doctors? I absolutely get it, and it does make sense...but it opens the door to some problems.

[Tomahawk]

So is this policy legal? Surprisingly, yes. "The federal anti-discrimination laws and Pennsylvania anti-discrimination laws do not protect smokers as a protected class," local employee rights attorney Laura Mattiacci told NBC 10. The hope is that by weeding out tobacco users, UPHS can lower its health care costs, though, it admits, there haven't been any studies to prove that such measures actually work.

If they were doing this out of the pure love of health, it would at least be borderline acceptable. farg the racket of insurance.

[Zanshin]

Oh, yeah. Insurance is a maddening disaster. No doubt about that.

[Sgt PSN]

Said it before and I'll say it again, I would rather see tobacco simply banned altogether than to have employers tell me that I can't enjoy a legal activity on my own time.  I'm sure that frequent and excessive alcohol consumption has a negative impact on your overall health but you don't see them telling employees to stop drinking at night or on the weekends, do you? 

You want ban smoking during the work day?  Cool.  You pay me from 9-5, you make the rules from 9-5.  Farg anyone who wants to tell me what I can or can't do when I'm off the clock. 

[Diomedes]

My doctor knew I was a drinker by looking at some kind of liver enzyme in my regular blood test, so I'm sure they could do that pretty easily.

[hbionic]

My doctor knew I was a drinker by looking at my pink, spider-veined nose, so I'm sure they could do that pretty easily.

[Sgt PSN]

My doctor knew I was a drinker by looking at the flask hanging out of my coat pocket.

[Tomahawk]

This is non-fascist shtein I can support

[ice grillin you]

good for them....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/02/05/cvs-to-stop-selling-tobacco-sacrificing-2-billion-in-sales-for-public-health-and-future-growth/

[Seabiscuit36]

They're selling weed instead

[phattymatty]

smoke free since the super bowl. just now starting to not want to kill everyone.

[smeags]

baby steps.

congrats on not going on a killing spree.

[Sgt PSN]

Trying this quitting thing again.  I've only ever made maybe 3 or 4 legitimate attempts at giving up Romes, none successful obviously. I'm still gay for Newports.

Trying the e-cigarette thing and going to gradually reduce the nicotine content as I go. I've only had 2 cigarettes in the last 48 hrs, which for me is a major accomplishment in and of itself. I also haven't bought cigarettes in about 3 weeks and have been bumming here and there....maybe 5 a day. There's a couple hundred bucks in my bank account right now that I'm not used to seeing. Nice.