[SheLion]

Every non-smoker has to put up with the lousy productivity of the smoker going outside to smoke and letting someone else do the work.

In addition, smokers are absent more often and for longer periods of time, on average, than non-smokers. Would you let employers charge higher health insurance premiums to smokers versus non-smokers.

I'm so tired of this argument I can puke.

When I worked with that 300 lb guy, he was sick ALL the time. Don't tell me smokers are more sickly. I could run circles around that fat guy.

Furthermore, I never missed ONE day in EIGHT years for sick reasons! And if a job is busy enough, there is no reason for a smoker to take a break. Although the law gives a 10 minute break in the morning and a 10 minute break in the afternoon, plus lunch.

I believe if a person takes a lot of smoke breaks, that person isn't busy enough on the job.

Your blowing smoke!

[3catsanadog]

That's very true. I work an 8 hour shift on my feet and am busy from clock in to clock out. I get a half hour for lunch and 2 15 minute breaks. That's when I smoke and the non-smokers get those breaks also.

When I used to work in an office, when things got slow my body screamed for a smoke.