Bert Fish Medical Center: Smokers need not apply

The Daytona Beach News-Journal ^ | August 22, 2013 | Skyler Swisher

[EveningStar]

ping

[Chickensoup]

This is pretty normal in healthcare now.

Everyone where I work has to pee in the bottle for nicotine tests.

If one tests positive? 2K added to your annual insurance.

[Viennacon]

Can you imagine the uproar if homosexuals need not apply?

[a fool in paradise]

Waiting to see this applied to pot smokers in Colorado, Seattle, etc.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Communism, totalitarianism, statism, has destroyed more lives than smokers could ever hope for. Any chance they will ban those things that liberals promote 24/7?

[James C. Bennett]

Just because some people willfully injure their own health through lifestyle choices, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they can’t care for other peoples’ health.

Often, it’s the opposite.

Most health freaks I meet also tend to be self-obsessed narcissists. If the smokers smoke where it won’t affect others, I’m okay with it.

[autumnraine]

Next is diabetics.

[Kozak]

Don’t eat tomatoes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1765327

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotinine

[Drango]

National Workrights Institute, a nonprofit offshoot of the American Civil Liberties Union

Odious scum.

[animal172]

Has anyone looked at many of the nurses, doctors and others that work in a hospital? Smoking is the least of their problems.

[bigbob]

Not to stir the pot (sic) or intentionally piss off smokers, but within our lifetimes this has gone from being “the” thing to do to being the thing NOT to do. What if the same kind of advertizing and public education campaign were applied to other drugs?

[DirtyPigpen]

What about e-cigs and the like. I have not smoked tobacco on almost a year.

[sergeantdave]

Most hospitals are run by thieving, left-wing fascists. I’m not surprised.

[RginTN]

What about fat people?

[Sacajaweau]

ridiculous

[JimSEA]

I guess you can’t ban any of the “isms” you listed with out becoming one of them.

[Gay State Conservative]

Having worked for 20 years in a major hospital I can assure everyone that male homosexuals on the staff....a huge percentage of the male nurses and male nurses’ aides were perverts...cost the hospital far more in health costs,sick time,etc than did the smokers.

[EDINVA]

“Can you imagine the uproar if homosexuals need not apply?”

My thought exactly. Homosexual behavior is at least as unhealthy as smoking (much more so, actually), so how does this employer or any other discriminate solely on the basis of a potential employee’s vice?

[DLfromthedesert]

Hey.... I take exception to that remark.... ;)