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Every non-smoker has to put up with the lousyproductivity of the smoker going outside to smoke and letting someone else do the work.
You can blame that one on the antis. Before the laws were imposed on workplace smoking we never had to leave our desks.

In addition, smokers are absent more often and for longer periods of time, on average, than non-smokers.
I would defy you to cite a source for that claim. The ones in my office with the highest absentee rates are parents. Those of us who are childless, smokers and non-smokers alike, are stuck picking up the slack.

Would you let employers charge higher health insurance premiums to smokers versus non-smokers.
Only if they also charge higher premiums for those who are overweight and/or have children. They run up more medical expenses in a year than I do in ten.

Also, ever place I have worked, the smokers create huge "butt" mess in their smokng area.
Ashtrays on their desks would solve that.

Of course, smokers could demand a lower deduction for pensions since they, on average, will not be around as long to collect.
My father and his ten siblings all smoke like chimneys. My dad is 72 and none of his siblings died younger than 70.

My father and his ten siblings all smoke like chimneys. My dad is 72 and none of his siblings died younger than 70.

HAPPY 99th BIRTHDAY, MR BOB HOPE!!

His premature death (per the anti's: all smokers die prematurely) will, of course, be due to his smoking.