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""I said that tobacco users are LESS productive and there is a mountain of evidence to back that up. I have yet to see any study that says they are MORE productive. If you can find such a study please post it. By your own admission you spend about 15 minutes a day getting high, that is 1.25hrs per week or 62.5hrs( 50 work weeks per annum, this allows for 2 weeks vacation) per year of productivity down the drain because of your drug cravings and lack of concern for your own health and well being. I guess it depends on the job and your work environment. If you refuse to hire smokers, you would have not hired Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Sigmond Freud, Alexander Bell, Sir Isaac Newton, Carl Sagan, Bob Hope, George Burns, John Wayne, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Donald Trump, Davey Crockett, Neil Armstrong, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Harrison, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Fiorella LaGuardia, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, John Pershing, and Antonin Scalia, to name a few unproductive people.

"If you refuse to hire smokers, you would have not hired... Alexander Bell..."

Who actually said, "Mr. Watson, I am out of smokes, be a dear and run down to the 7-11 and get me some Chestefields" THEN come here."

Lockjaw, your post is just a little silly, I noticed quite a few of your examples are smokers who wised up and quite, like Ronald Reagan. But yes you are correct, if they are active smokers I will not hire them. The partnership is mine and my fellow partners to manage and set policy as we please. Do you have a problem with that concept? If we miss an "Albert Einstein" here or there then it will be our loss not yours. Is that ok with you? So far we have been very successful, you seem to miss the concept that in a tight knot group everyone must be a "good fit". With 15 healthy. physically active nonsmokers a smoker just does not fit in. Likewise if the opposite were true and we had 15 smokers, it is likely the nonsmoker would not fit in as well. Among our 10 partners the policy is supported unanimously, we do not hire smokers. It's our business not yours, it's our right, unless you nico-addicted nazi's would like to take it away. The problem you have is that it is an unwritten policy, tobacco heads never know why they never get the 2nd interview. Smoke all you want and enjoy your tobacco abbreviated life as you please, but you will not smoke inside of my business, my automobile nor inside my home around my children. We like the clean smell and we cherish our God given health.