[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!

[Milwaukee_Guy]

My Fortune 500 employer banned smoking anywhere inside the plant or office as of last January 2001.

Here's the problem with that,

- Smoking is still legal.
- It's not my company's business if I smoke.
- I'm not a piece of the company's property.
- Our plant is full of chrome plating, oxide coating, welding, cutting oil, cleaning fluid, propane exhaust and a myriad of other fumes. Second hand smoke is the least of our problems.
- This discriminates against older workers who typicalluy smoke more than younger people who don't.

The anti-smoking police have opened a Pnadora's box of regulation which will soon affect non-smokers as well,

Why should any employee be overweight, ride a motorcycle, skydive, own a firearm, go boating, drive a sports car or engage in any activity that would impact the corporation or raise insurance costs?

Who decides what is dangerous?

Think about it. You are the property of the corporation. You may not engage in legal activites if it in any way may harm you as an asset to the company.

Have a Nice Day!