[Daffynition]

[freedomfiter2]

Showing up for work with bad odor isn’t smart for a receptionist.

[PowderMonkey]

I smoked a pack a day for 35 years. Quit cold turkey in 2007. Never looked back. Never missed them. Also, never knew how bad they smelled to others until I quit. I still love the smell of good pipe tobacco and expensive cigars, but cigarettes stink. Why is that?

[VanDeKoik]

It is a rule in many hospitals that you are not to smoke, and even the odor of it on you is grounds for dismissal.

[Tainan]

"...Park Nicollet Health Services, in the Frauenshuh Cancer Center..."

Yeah...I can see where this ash tray smell might be just a little bit of a problem.
Sometimes you have to think outside the pack...;)

[jimmygrace]

A lot of potential boy friends were also found to have been guilty of odor discrimination...

[Free Vulcan]

Reading the article, the company is being a bit of a douche about it considering the lengths she went to accomodate them (which tells me there might be other reasons they wanted to get rid of her). Still, if she knew all this up front, and it seems their policy is very up front, she should have known where things stood. I don’t see a lack of disclosure issue here to where it looks like she got bait-and-switched.

[sickoflibs]

I gave up smoking in the mid 1980s when smoking indoors was legal. In those days everyone smelled likes moke. Now it is very obvious who smokes especially those who do it in their car.

[P-Marlowe]

If this is a private business then they had every right to fire her.

[righttackle44]

I grew up in a home where both my parents smoked. I can tell you without apology that I stand with the hospital and it's no smoking policy. Besides having to put up with the smell of cigarettes while trying to eat breakfast, or having mom and dad light up at the dinner table, I also have lived all my life with lung problems--susceptibility to bronchitis, asthma and similar conditions, could very well be related to my parents' smoking habit, according to virtually ever doctor I've ever had.

By the way, Daffynition, I suspect from your Don't Tread On Me snake insignia, that you side with the smoking receptionist?

[TXnMA]

In high school, I dated one (1) girl who smoked. After we parted ways, even dry cleaning wouldn't get the stench out of my clothes. They had to be treated in an "ozone chamber" that is used to recover smoke-damaged clothes from house fires. But the stink never went completely away...

I vowed, "Never again!" -- and I've stood by it nearly 60 years. Disgusting stuff, cigarette smoke...

[autumnraine]

As a smoker who worked for a boss who clearly hired me with the announcement that he hated the smell of ashtray...

Washing your hands after every cig, listerine strips... that will do it.

I worked at a different place after that and got in the habit of it. MOst people there didn’t even know I smoked! The hands are the foulest smelling part of a smoker.

[chainsaw]

Hospital Receptionist Claims She Was Fired for Smelling Like Cigarette Smoke

A quick first glance led me to read it as smelling like [fish].

[chainsaw]

Hospital Receptionist Claims She Was Fired for Smelling Like Cigarette Smoke

A quick first glance led me to read it as smelling like [fish].

[Sans-Culotte]

I was a 2-pack a day smoker for about 10 years before quitting. I never knew how bad cigarettes smelled until I quit. However, I have to question this receptionist’s hygeine habits. If she is not smoking during working hours, she should not smell that bad. I have sales reps who call on me that smoke, and I have even ridden in their cars at lunch; but I never smell smoke on them or their vehicles. They use those Febreze things in their cars, and I never smell cigarettes.