Upcoming No Smoking Policy for LOWE'S Employees

[Old Professer]

Most of Lowe's employees don't make enough money to afford a pack of cigarettes.

[SheLion]

With all the flammable stuff in a Lowe's store, they should have done this years ago. I work at a newspaper, and I assure you that lighting up in a warehouse full of petroleum-based ink and tinder-dry paper is a hanging offense. A building supply store is another disaster just waiting to happen. No smoking? Of course no smoking!

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.

[SheLion]

Did you see where they are going to offer "smoking cessation classes?" What about the employees that do not WANT to quit? The head of LOWE'S is in someone's pocket and now he does not want an employee that smokes.

[Tempest]

NAZIS

[Argh]

I agree 100%. And thank you too, Miss She!

[Gabz]

Thanks for the link - here's what I had to say to the:

I have been a loyal Lowe's customer for more than 10 years in Dover, Delaware.

The anti-smoker policy you have taken against your employees has changed my mind.

As a home owner I am constantly in need of "things," knowing your disdain of those adults who choose to use tobacco products, I will now be driving to the nearest Home Depot store.

Within the year a new Home Depot will be opening closer to my home than the nearest Lowe's - until such time I will drive the 40 miles or so to avoid puting any funds into the pockects of the corporate bigwigs of Lowes.

Good Bye Lowes.

[petuniasevan]

If they don't want smoking employees, then I guess they don't want customers who smoke as well

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.

[SheLion]

I agree 100%. And thank you too, Miss She!

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!)

[Station 51]

Actually yes I know a few people who work in bars and complain about the smoke. I have told them they should get another job, just as I would tell Lowe's empoyees that they should find another job if they do not like the company policy.

[SheLion]

Good Bye Lowes.

Bless you! A little loss in revenue, especially before Christmas should drive a little spike in. LOL

[oldtimer]

Agreed. One of my best investments was Lowes which I sold a while back.

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.

[SheLion]

If all smokers/tobacco users quit shopping at Lowe's, they would see their profit margin disappear.

Christmas is coming!

[SheLion]

just as I would tell Lowe's empoyees that they should find another job if they do not like the company policy.

NOW your talking! We don't need no more Government intervention, or Nannie do-gooders!

[Mulder]

What about their obese?

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.

[SheLion]

The Smoking Gestapo has gone way overboard.

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

[SheLion]

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.

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.

[SheLion]

What I sent to LOWE'S:

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!

[Bahbah]

Lowe's is closer to me. I will drive the extra distance to Home Depot. HEAR THAT, HOME DEPOT.

[southern rock]

Being one that is opposed to government intervention on such matters I fully support Lowe’s from banning employee smoking on their property. If Loews’s employees do not like the policy they can quit their jobs and find a job where they are able to smoke.

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.

[PistolPaknMama]

Turner Broadcasting prohibits the smoking of all employees...on or OFF the job. If you work for Ted Turner, you cannot smoke, period.