[SheLion]

I wonder how LOWE'S is going to deal with their OBESE employees, since the Surgeon General said that Obesity has now passed smoking, alcoholism and poverty for health care and disease! Is LOWE'S going to put the OBESE employees on strict diets? Loose pounds or lose job?

More People Control! If you work at LOWE'S and are a bit overweight, beware. YOU will be NEXT!

Surgeon general warns obesity may overtake tobacco as leading preventable killer

[SheLion]

I wonder if the driver and pit crew in NASCAR that have LOWE'S as their sponsor will have to quit smoking too!!

[duckman]

New York is taking care of the obesity problem by sueing McDonalds.

[Bella_Bru]

Perhaps Lowe's should sponsor stomach stapling for their lardasses. The Lowe's near me has some chunky employees. Time to punish them too.

[Mark]

Well, I guess it's ok to chew tobacco and spit on their floors.

[Mark]

Forget that! I just saw they had their bases covered.

[IYAS9YAS]

Private Company...no matter how misguided, their rules. I haven't seen too many obese people in these kinds of stores anyway...too much walking, lifting and busy work.

[CloudyI]

Not only do they have the right to do this, it might actually be smart. What happens when the trial lawyers start suing companies like Lowes because they let their employees smoke. They will say companies like Lowes are as much at fault as the tobacco companies in causing these poor helpless people to get cancer---

"After all, my poor client has no money and lung cancer--Lowes has billions of dollars and they encouraged her to smoke with their pro-smoking policies".

It is simply pro-active policy in this victim's world--

[gubamyster]

How is chewing (if you don't spit) going to hurt anyone other than the person chewing. There is no "second-hand chew" argument. What are they going to do, pry customers' mouths open to see if they are chewing?

[Gabz]

It is a voluntary decision made by a private company. I wont' be applying for a job there anytime soon nor will I any longer be purchasing from them - but it is not the government forcing it upon them.

[Argh]

Please pardon my Canaduh ignorance, Miss She, but what kind of business is Lowe's?

[ArcLight]

With all the flammable stuff in a Lowe's store, they should have done this years ago. I work at a newspaper, and I assure you that lighting up in a warehouse full of petroleum-based ink and tinder-dry paper is a hanging offense. A building supply store is another disaster just waiting to happen. No smoking? Of course no smoking!

[Old Professer]

Most of Lowe's employees don't make enough money to afford a pack of cigarettes.

[PistolPaknMama]

Turner Broadcasting prohibits the smoking of all employees...on or OFF the job. If you work for Ted Turner, you cannot smoke, period.

[Cultural Jihad]

I almost feel sorry for the Lowe's employees, er, wage-slaves, who are forced to work there against their will. :/

[JavaTheHutt]

Is LOWE'S going to put the OBESE employees on strict diets? Loose pounds or lose job?

Eating food will no longer be allowed on Lowes premises. Instead of eating food on their lunch breaks, employees will be encouraged to go back to the lumber department and hug the remains of a tree.

[Kevin Curry]

I wonder how LOWE'S is going to deal with their OBESE employees, since the Surgeon General said that Obesity has now passed smoking, alcoholism and poverty for health care and disease! Is LOWE'S going to put the OBESE employees on strict diets? Loose pounds or lose job?

If Lowe's wanted to pass anti-obesity rules, are you suggesting the company shouldn't be allowed to? By what authority? The Americans with Disabilities Act?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Good point. Since people are obese, we should make it a right to give people cancer from second hand smoke. Sweet.

[potlatch]

I sent them an e-mail, for what it's worth;

Prepare for some loss of business due to your policy of preventing employies from even being able to smoke outside your stores!
Next, it will be the obese, the drinkers, etc. until you have fulfilled the liberal agenda of taking away peoples rights, other than killing babies by abortion.
Our world is going crazy!! [signed xxx]

[MissAmericanPie]

Let the boycot begin, I don't shop Lowes anyway, Home Depot is far better and I like that they told the Fed to stuff it with their racial parity demands.

Can you imagine the headache for all the branches nation wide to try to keep a certain percentage of minority employees with all the people that move through their employ?

[Publius6961]

I notice that Lowe's is quoting from the discredited Lung Association made up "statistics".
Wonderful.