Posted on 11/25/2002 3:32:06 PM PST by SheLion
Of COURSE they don't smoke in the warehouse. I am sure they have smoking sections outside. But these will go by the way-side come next year.
Good point!
Where I work approximately 40% of employees are smokers. (An anti-smoking ordinance there would cause a mutiny). I'm guessing that the general population smoker percentage around here is over 30%.
If all smokers/tobacco users quit shopping at Lowe's, they would see their profit margin disappear.
Your so welcome. And I posted this as an FYI for anyone that works at LOWE'S and hasn't seen this, or for anyone that shops at LOWE'S and wants the choice to further shop there or not.
If smoking were illegal, I could sure understand this. But smoking is legal and tobacco is legal. When will it all stop.
(I wonder if LOWE'S will pull out their vending machines next, with all the Twinkies. hehe!)
Bless you! A little loss in revenue, especially before Christmas should drive a little spike in. LOL
Was at my near Lowes store not two hours ago.>
Home Depot is around the corner. Will go there next time, after telling the manager of Lowes that their policy sucks.
The Smoking Gestapo has gone way overboard.
Christmas is coming!
NOW your talking! We don't need no more Government intervention, or Nannie do-gooders!
Many of the obese have taken up front-line positions in the war against having fun, which includes smoking.
As an example: Where I work, there is a very nice lady who smokes.... probably a couple of packs a day. She is still very attractive and in good shape, for her age (or any age for that matter). One day, (while she was minding her own business) another employee was giving her a hard time about smoking.
I was laughing my tail off because the anti was about 100 pounds overweight. It was obvious which one was going to live longer... I guess fatso didn't see the irony. The only thing that could have made the whole episode any funnier would have been if my smoking friend had taken her lit cigarette and "given" it to the loser.
The attorneys have jumped on the bandwagon for obesity, so everyone better watch out. You/They could be next, and I'm not kidding. No one is safe.
You're right. In ten years or less, the nazis will be using the same tactics against gun owners that they are currently using against smokers.
WAY over board, oldtimer! Do you see it now??
Most nonsmokers have no idea how far the demonization of smokers has gone, nor how much damage is being done by this "war" on one in four of our fellow citizens. And it is all based on manipulated science funded by special-interest groups well paid with money extorted from the smokers themselves. It's a sad and scary statement on what CAN happen in a free country when unelected zealots with an axe to grind in collusion with greedy pork-barrel politicians set their sights on one unpopular segment of society. - by Spinner
Gun owners, let this be a lesson to you. They are already trying to get their teeth into you. And once they do, you can't shake them lose.
Just read your memo about going smoke-free in 2003. Tobacco and smoking is a legal commodity. Will you be removing your vending machines that sell TWINKIES as well? How will you handle your obese employees? The Surgeon General released a report that obesity is costing more in health care and disease today. Yet, you ban your employee's from smoking. Well, Christmas is coming, and we will be taking our money to Home Depot. We will no longer shop at LOWE'S! We don't like your policy!
Ummm... Just because you are against government intervention on such matters does NOT mean that you must fully support them in their action of banning employee smoking on their property. I am opposed to government intervention , but I plan of harassing Lowe's until their computers melt. I did it when they had the anti-gun propaganda on their website a couple of years ago, I will do it again.
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