Smoked out

projo.com ^ | 04-04-04 | JENNIFER LEVITZ

[Mears]

Prayers for your dad!

[RightOnline]

Context. Culture. Traditionally acceptable behavior. I don't play silly strawman games here, so find it unnecessary to feel compelled to differentiate between smoking and having sex, carrying guns, drinking, shooting up, engaging in self flagellation, or other legal or semi-legal acts in the work place. If you (the collective "you") aren't capable of differentiating, then you have no business being in any workplace, let alone out in public.

[RobRoy]

I think that is smart!

[Terry Mross]

From now on out it's Home Depot, located right next door to Lowe's. It's obvious Lowe's doesn't want my stinking business.

When Rhode Island realizes how much tax revenue they're going to lose when all those people quit smoking, they'll just ask US for more. The non smokers' taxes are going up as smokers stop smoking.

[Kirkwood]

Ask the National Cancer Institute. Last figures I saw for 2001 indicated that 15% of treatments were for indigent patients. Why so high? Several reasons such as poorer general health, waiting too long to seek treatment, more exposure to alcohol, cigarette, drugs, and disease.

These costs must be absorbed on a state-by-state basis by the taxpayer. Patient care is generally no cheaper in the charity hospital system than it is for the insured. If anything, the indigent might have better exposure to expensive clinical trials than those who must follow their insurance providers guidelines.

[Cultural Jihad]

... then you have no business being in any workplace, let alone out in public.

Oh, don't worry about me, as I am well able to steer clear of the masochistic histrionics of the professionally-downtrodden victims. ;-D

[CSM]

And the MSA was supposed to address these "costs" caused by smoking. The states have failed to use any of the $215 Billion for any "costs" caused by smoking. My state gains revenues of $1.1 B from taxing cigs and the MSA combined. The money generated should be more than enough to address these supposed "costs". The fact that they aren't using the money for anything other than general fund supplementation is very telling. If they don't use the money to address the "costs" then those costs don't exist.

[Bogey]

However, over time they will adopt more policies toward discouraging smoking including avoiding hiring smokers. It is common sense.

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Yea. Far better to hire some non smoking neurotic who cuts work every week because of a sniffle.