Posted on 12/29/2011 4:54:10 PM PST by Born Conservative
He and Bill both smoked on the roof.
Take a look at the roof of the White House sometimes. There are two things that look like old large chimneys.
One of them is a smoking room, the other is full of guns and ammo.
FDR and Congress set 62 years to be the age of S.S. (Don’t tell anybody that the average lifespan was short of that at the time.)
The FED can get bent.
Don’t call me a hypocrite.
I do support businesses’ rights to choose who they serve. The point here though is that one group is being singled out while others (who are actually more high risk) are not all in the name of political correctness.
I learned in grad school from a nursing professor that only 15% of smokers will actually develop cancer. Where he got that stat & if it’s true I don’t know but it’s interesting.
By the way, radon gas causes more lung cancer than smokies (think Dana Reeve). So if Geisinger wants to be consistent, then they should only hire non-smokers who have a radon reduction system in their house.
It’s my religious right and duty to take a little wine for my stomachs sake. That’d be meddling to interfere.
I did a 3 month rotation at Geisinger during grad school. Their cafeteria served the usual fatty, fried, greasy processed crap. That was the only place around to eat. Wonder if they will promote better nutrition since they claim to want to foster a healthy environment for employees & patients.
Bunch of PC hypocrites.
Okay, then you should have no problem with this.
So if Geisinger wants to be consistent, then they should only hire non-smokers who have a radon reduction system in their house.
If they have the right to choose then they also have the right to be inconsistent.
Right?
Lots of places do this already. Go work somewhere else if you don’t like it. Private business.
Thanks! Buy season one of “Lost in Space”. You get the pilot and the same darn thing! LOL!
My company has a NO-TOBACCO policy. Yea right.....
Back when I was a manager at a meat packing plant I stopped hiring smokers because I couldn’t ever keep them in the plant. They were always out on the loading dock having a smoke.
Haven’t you heard, meat is murder. Better ban it.
Buzz cuts, pocket protectors, cigarettes and coffee with scotch in the evenings.
Many engineers out there died of heart attacks in their 30's back in those days, from the stress.
They have since banned “trans fats” in all of their cafeterias. No more Middleswarth chips...
It’s their choice. Only idiot libs would boycott or attempt to force them to hire people that they don’t want to hire.
NHS the 3rd largest employer on the PLANET...
to cover a lousy 50 million people...talk about bloated bureaucracy!
(#1 is the Chinese Army,# 2 is the India Railway system)
After a few years of Barrycare, I bet it will be 2nd.
You don’t go to the bar to improve your health?
I won’t drink to that.
We used to get hilarious letters from those folks. We posted them up on the bulletin board for everyone to laugh at.
Ever notice that you don’t see signs in businesses that say “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” anymore.
Its because business no longer has that right unless uncle government agrees.
Personally I think a business should be able to refuse service to anyone for any reason. If the owner doesn’t like blacks, let him refuse to serve them, chances are he won’t be in business for long but that’s his choice.
As far as smoking is concerned, its seldom the wish of a company to refuse to hire smokers. Its either pressure from an insurer or government. In lots of counties here in Michigan, you can’t even smoke on the property of businesses and that’s the law not a choice.
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