SMOKE - AND FIRED

TheNewYorkPost ^ | 2 October 2002 | DAVID SEIFMAN

[SheLion]

A top Housing Authority official has smoked himself out of an $80,000-a-year job.

After consulting with the mayor's office, Housing chairman Tino Hernandez yesterday ordered the immediate firing of Robert Swinton, the deputy director of the Office of Facility Planning, one of five employees spotted by a Post reporter last week in extended smoking sessions outside the agency's headquarters at 250 Broadway.

[winodog]

I made myself very clear in my post. I expect everyone to goof off a little. However many smokers are constantly walking over to find their smokes, looking for a light, goofing off while smoking and they make a habit of it.
On the other hand many smokers are great workers. They smoke a lot but you never see them looking for a light, a smoke, or standing around smoking. They have smokes and lights in their pocket and they pull it out, light it and work while smoking.
It sounds to me like these clowns who are being punished are taking advantage of it. They are lazy, shiftless and they ruin smoke breaks for everyone.

[cinFLA]

by the way, my dad smoked and died of old age at 90.

BTW, my dad didn't smoke and lived to 102.

[cinFLA]

I'm amazed at the number of anti-smokers who are expert in the taste of a dirty ashtray. Not one smoker I know has ever licked one.

We've all experimented with kissing smokers in high school before we realized we didn't have to. Back then it was "if she smokes, she drinks. If she drinks she ..." I think you get the drift.

[cinFLA]

I'm amazed at the number of anti-smokers who are expert in the taste of a dirty ashtray. Not one smoker I know has ever licked one

I am glad that you at least don't deny how bad a smoker's mouth tastes.

[Great Dane]

BTW, my dad didn't smoke and lived to 102.

So....... we never claimed non-smokers died early, you on the other hand have something to prove.

[Great Dane]

Back then it was "if she smokes, she drinks. If she drinks she ..." I think you get the drift.

Coming from you, that statement doesn't surprise me one little bit........... Not an ounce of class.

[cinFLA]

So....... we never claimed non-smokers died early, you on the other hand have something to prove.

I have nothing to prove. It is undeniable that smoking is a smelly, irritable habit leading to early death.

[Great Dane]

I have nothing to prove. It is undeniable that smoking is a smelly, irritable habit leading to early death.

The first two are about you and your little sensetivities, the third is far from proven.

[cinFLA]

On average, smokers die nearly seven years earlier than nonsmokers.

[Brytani]

Well Freepers, you're losing another kindered spirit in the smoking realm. Tomorrow I go back on the patch and hopefully this time I will quit for good.

With me luck

[SheLion]

Well Freepers, you're losing another kindered spirit in the smoking realm. Tomorrow I go back on the patch and hopefully this time I will quit for good.

Just don't turn ANTI!

Anyway, good luck to you! If a person just can't stand it anymore, then quit! My Dad woke up one morning, couldn't stand smoking, and just quit! So, if you really don't want smoking in your life anymore, then quitting is for you, and I do wish you luck!

Hating it will make it that much easier for you! Don't be a stranger.

[VRWC_minion]

A tip that works well for many folks I ahve give it to is that you should welcome each and every urge to smoke that you get. I know it sounds wacky but here is why.

There is a finite number of urges to smoke that you will experience before getting to a point that you have no more urges to smoke. The more that you experience the closer you are to getting to the end.

Each time I got the urge to smoke I thanked God for it because it meant that it was now one less that I had to experience.

[Gabz]

On average, smokers die nearly seven years earlier than nonsmokers.

Gee - your own words prove that smokers are NOT a drain on society.

IF (and that's a BIG if) this is true and you truly believe it - why are you getting on our cases?????

[Gabz]

Well Freepers, you're losing another kindered spirit in the smoking realm. Tomorrow I go back on the patch and hopefully this time I will quit for good. With me luck

All the luck to you. If that's what you want, I don't see you having any problems.

I just hope you really don't mean that we are losing a "kindred spirit" - by saying that you are indicating that you are going to turn against the rest of us who choose not to quit at this time - I hope you really don't mean that you are going to go over to the dark side.

[Gabz]

That's a great positive attitude - and very good advice.

Positive reinforcement is far better that continual negative excoriations.

[Gabz]

With that said, the second part is that smoking is banned indoors.

And if it wasn't we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.

Proper ventilation takes care of the problem - but that's not good enough for the anti smokers. You may not have noticed, but the issue has taken another shift - again. It keeps shifting because the Big Brother Nanny Busybodies are having problems.

The issue started with "smoking is bad for your health" - well not enough folks quit smoking to satisfy the BBNBs - so they shifted.

Next was it shortens your life "don't do that to your family" - but not enough people quit to satisfy the BBNBs - so they shifted.

Then it was exposure to other people's smoke - "you're killing non-smokers around you" - but the science doesn't back up the press releases, therefore they weren't able to get enough non-smokers to join their ban wagon - so they had to shift again.

Now it's just - "I don't like the stench, It stinks," etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.

I'm not normally a vindictive "I told you so" type person - but I can't wait for this entire BBNB group to get bit on the butt - the attack on smokers is going to come back to haunt them when it shifts to something they enjoy - and I'm going to be loving every minute of it.

[cinFLA]

IF (and that's a BIG if) this is true and you truly believe it - why are you getting on our cases?????

1) I do not like to see smoking glorified in a public medium and 2) my last visit to the thread was 10/4. Since then, I have only been RESPONDING to posts directed to me. You can thank Great Dane for restarting this.

[Max McGarrity]

I am glad that you at least don't deny how bad a smoker's mouth tastes.

I'd prefer any smoker's mouth to the bigotry and bile that come from yours. That stuff will KILL you.

I AM glad that you at least don't deny licking dirty ashtrays so you can make a "valid" comparison. Yuck.