Good - enjoy your smokes
There are numerous "stupid" behaviors that cost taxpayers far more money than smokers do and none of them are being singled out for job discrimination
Such as?
The 5'5" state employee sitting next to me at the bar drinking booze and eating fries is probably costing you poor dumped upon taxpayer more than the cop that enjoys a cigarette with his coffee or after work.
Bad behavior is bad behavior is bad behavior - plus a "smoker" enjoying a single cigarette a day and no more is few and far between. I've never known one, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Also, bad diet can be corrected by eating better - eating bad is not the same as inhaling toxic chemicals. Furthermore, gained weight through bad diet and be lost through exercise and caloric restriction. How many folks were cured of ephysema and bronchiogenic carcinoma (which coincidentaly has increased in parallel with cigarete smoking trends), again? Hmmm? An easy 60% of the sickest patients I interview have a history of smoking. One guy who'd had two quadruple bypass surgeries from repeat MI's, and congetive heart failure was told by his physician that if he didn't stop smoking he'd die - soon. This guy would not stop, got pneumonia and has been on a vent. for the last few weeks @ about 7,000-10,000 grand a day. He's 52 and probably leaving two kids and a wife behind. Selfish habit indeed.
I'm sick and bloody tired of paying for the constant harrassment of [non]smokers.
Kind of like I'm tired of paying for stupid behavior.
Increased with parallel smoking trends????? You're kidding, aren't you????
Smoking rates have been decreasing for years.
Care to explain the "parallel"......or the one about decreases in exposure to SHS for children yet a skyrocketing rate of asthma.........??? Probably not.
Look, it is obvious you do not like cigarette smoking and do not like to be around those that do, that's fine. However, imposing your own personal preferences upon those around you at gun point (use of government control) is not exactly the way to go about it