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Many years ago while I was working and saw what was hapening to the smokers I often made the remark "What's next obesity in the workplace"

Being obese isn't a threat to a fellow worker.
But we have gone so far down the road of insanity that protecting people from themselves is the next crusade. - Tom

Being obese isn't a threat to a fellow worker.

No? What if a morbidly obese co-worker loses his/her balance falls on you and breaks your ankle, arm, collar bone etc? Will they help you pay your bills while you are at home healing? Or how about finding the emergency exits blocked by a fat man who fell down while evacuating due to fire or earthquake etc?

>>Being obese isn't a threat to a fellow worker.

Just u wait. Productivity losses, extra sick days, increased wear and tear on the furniture.

Increased costs for everyone.

The logic against cigs will be applied to food. With the significant exception that fat people will not be ostracized.

Many years ago while I was working and saw what was hapening to the smokers I often made the remark "What's next obesity in the workplace"

A very long time ago - 10 to 15 years - Rush Limbaugh would regularly report on whatever Nanny State action was being taken that day (usually something smoking-related, but of course it could be any number of things: mandatory bicycle helmets for kids, someone successfully suing a ladder manufacturer for falling off one of their products that didn't have a label on it reading "Don't be a damned idiot," etc), and he would always end his rants with a statement along the lines of, "Mark my words. If we don't stop this sort of thing now, eventually they'll start going after FOOD."

He said this over and over and over again. Everyone laughed at him, and of course as a society we did nothing about the Nanny State. And his prediction has come 100% true, just like the slowly-boiling frog. It's happened so slowly, so "progressively" (pun intended) slowly, that I'm not sure even Rush remembers how he used to make that prediction almost every day way back when. By the time the Food Nazis finally came along in the last year or two, nobody was the least bit surprised; we all fully expected it.