Posted on 03/29/2010 12:15:00 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Just wait until guns and ammo are deemed a health problem.
They tried in the Clinton administration and they will do it again.
This country is becoming unrecognizable.
Are you planning on getting your health care at the local neighborhood bar?
This is what happens when you let millions of immigrants, illegal and legal into your labor pool during a prolonged period of corporate downsizing. The employers have such a large pool of prospective employees to choose from that they become insanely picky about who they will hire and who they won’t. This does not bode well for this country or its citizens. You can’t unring the bell once it tolls. The inability to create jobs in America will destroy this country as surely as a bombing campaign.
***The wheels are in motion to even prohibit tobacco use at home and in your private car.***
It will never be totally prohibited because of the jobs & tax revenue it generates.
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0097.pdf
Idiocy? You’ve got to be kidding.
I believe in freedom. An employer should be able to hire whoever fits its criteria. And if that means not hiring people with freckles, so be it.
Same with housing. I should be able to rent to whoever I want, no government interference.
If you’re a smoker, find an employer for whom it isn’t a problem or quit smoking.
Depends on when you started, I guess.
So if an employer doesn’t like qualified blacks, according to you they should not have to hire even a single one.
Glad we aren’t living in your world.....yet.
What about FAT people, after all they cost a bundle in health care cost?????? Probably more than the smoker does.
Smoking fines are also a good source for revenue tickets. If they criminalize POSESSION of tobacco, they lose that money and have to pay for prison costs.
Sugar taxes are coming.
Meat taxes can’t be far behind.
A nurse who takes xanex to get through her stressful day doesn’t smell like an ashtray. Is that any better?
The CDC tallies gun deaths as if it were a “disease” that falls under their “control”.
BTW Overweight people have now taxed the health field and insurance companies MORE than smokers for health related illnesses. Coming up fast are sex related illnesses...aids/hiv and various sexually transmitted diseases.
How about a two ton lady nurse who decided not to take a shower for a few days....they reak!
On another note...patients breath generally isn’t any bowl of roses when nurses have to chnage their IV’s... ya know!
Are you obsessive compulsive? hummm
Well they use to have smoking and non-smoking restraunts....so your arguement won’t work in the long run...they will determine what you can or not do... choice will no longer be an option.
But refusing to hire smokers might be a little bit over the line,IMO.
You might enjoy these...
World’s oldest-all smokers
http://www.forces.org/evidence/hamilton/other/oldest.htm
The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-45
http://www.data-yard.net/nazi/7070nd2.htm
>>I wonder if they will refuse to hire fudgepackers
Didn’t you read the headline? No “smokers’....
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