[Just another Joe]

She, I've got to say that I don't find this to be something that I want to fight.
A private corporation having a smoking ban on company property is completely within my moral guidelines.
Agreed, they take it too far when they say you can't smoke in your own car.
And they were probably coerced by the anti-smoking forces into making the decision and they are making the decision for the wrong reasons (health of non-smokers) but it IS still their decision to make.
The only problem I have is with the government making the decision for them and trying to balance the budget on the backs of smokers.

[SheLion]

Joe, your so right. What I believe is: they should have grand fathered this. They can put into play of not hiring anyone who smokes, but to just yank the smoking privileges away from the "old-timers" who have worked for the company for years and years is very cruel.

It makes me wonder if Big Pharm didn't get ahold of them, to further promote their products. Stranger things have happened.

I, too, believe in the owner's choice to run his business the way HE sees fit, without government intervention. But why are they doing it NOW? I am very suspicious of this, Joe.

Why now? It already has Sappi Paper Mill in an UPROAR. The emails I am receiving from an employee at Sappi, you just wouldn’t believe. They have a lot of men at Sappi who smoke and who have worked there for years. Why is Sappi doing this to them? Why is GM doing this to their people? It’s not good, Joe. Not good at all.

And you know how pressured these people will be, because good jobs are hard to find, plus these men are working for their pensions. It makes me sick to my stomach. I feel their pain. I really do.

I've gotten word that letters will be written to the GM Union about this. Not that it will help, but can't hurt.