If an employers feels this strongly about the health of his employees, then he should set up a barracks or dormitory and make their employees live there so they can be monitored 24/7.
Is this the next step for the American work force? Makes me shudder.
Making us healthy, whether we like it or not, I guess. IMO, this really has nothing to do with smoking, or cholesterol, or obesity...per se. It's the sheer cost of medical insurance that is the problem. If those costs weren't so distorted, I bet the nannies could really care less if folks smoke. The pol's would be ticked, of course, because then they would lose some of their ability to levy such heavy taxes on cigarettes.
Sorry if this didn't make much sense...still fighting the uckie-poos here, lol.
Remember the old song "16 Tons"
I owe my soul to the company store.
Until about 60 years ago my little home town in SE Arkansas was a "company town" where all real estate, housing stores etc were company owned. The company even hired and fired the ministers of the local churches. It controlled all activities of the personnel which lived in these houses and could kick you out for doing things it deemed inappropriate. Are we headed by to those days of unenlighened capitalism?