"Not even the public servants such as police officers or firemen can enjoy a legal cigarette as long as they hold the position of Street Saviors. They are now "owned by the state." It's funny though, how they are still allowed to consume alcohol."
Are firemen prohibited from breathing all smoke? Are they forbidden to enter burning buildings? How can they prove what smoke that entered the lungs "caused" the work related illness?
This article has brought me to my knees, CSM. I am totally devestated. I am so afraid for our Country and what is becoming of it.
I KNEW the stink from MASS would rub off. And it did......to NY and Maine. How is VT doing and NH???
This makes no sense. But what sense can we find from anything the lawmakers put down?
I guess when you work for the state..........your life is no longer your own.
"Are firemen prohibited from breathing all smoke? Are they forbidden to enter burning buildings? How can they prove what smoke that entered the lungs "caused" the work related illness?"
That's exactly the point. Firemen fought for the right to claim under their worker's disability plans to be covered for lung diseases that might have been caused by smoke inhalation on the job. In previous cases where they tried for this, it was often pointed out that these guys were also smokers and thus their lung diseases might have been caused by that. I would guess that some state or municipality lost on a case like this, and thus implemented these no-smoking rules for their firemen so that they wouldn't be on the hook for disability payments to smokers with lung diseases caused by smoking. The article above aluded to this.