[A Ruckus of Dogs]

The state balances its budget on the backs of smokers, but they are still treated like second class citizens. The taxing of cigarettes is a crime wave waiting to happen.

Agreed. The obscene taxes placed on cigarettes will only drive it into the black market.

Not being able to smoke in one's own car borders on insanity.

Agreed. A car is your own property. Just please use the ashtray so the litter problem can be diminished.

Termination for one offense borders on criminal. You don't support Nazi tactics in government. Why do you support them in the workplace?

I support the right of a workplace to set its own rules. Why don't you? If my company prohibited drinking alcohol on the premises (and many companies do) I would have to agree if someone got fired for that reason. However, I think that any reasonable employer would take you aside and read you the riot act first - termination would apply to repeat offenders.

[mysterio]

I think it is unfair to begin persecuting your workers who are smokers after so many years. Can you imagine working at GM for 20 years and having them all of the sudden change the rules?

It is within their rights to change the rules. You are most certainly correct. It is also within my rights to not purchase a product from a company that jumps on the bandwagon with a feel good, knee jerk health program that is going to piss off a lot of its workers.

I certainly don't want the government forcing a company to allow or disallow smoking.