It's not about banning together. Statistics show that smokers as a group are more proned to (insert any limited number of diseases here) and companies who provide health insurance are unwilling to burden the costs of rising insurance rates. If they can keep their employees healthier, then their bottom line is also more healthy. Turner Broadcasting banned smoking of all employees years ago. You can't smoke at home. You can't smoke on the weekends. You can't smoke.
Actually "statistics show that smokers as a group" are no less productive, take no more days off, are no more sickly, and are therefore no more costly than other workers. The only people who disagree are anti-smokers, and if they're talkin' they're lyin'. Obesity costs companies more, as does poverty. One of the major British insurance actuaries recently broke the story that they overcharge smokers since there's no difference in smokers and nonsmokers, statistically, at least until age 40.
If they can keep their employees healthier, then their bottom line is also more healthy. Turner Broadcasting banned smoking of all employees years ago. You can't smoke at home. You can't smoke on the weekends. You can't smoke.
Just one more reason I wouldn't work for Ted Turner in ANY capacity, and it's Turner's loss, not mine.
Would you care to post a link to these statistics.
I don't want to call you a liar but I think you're either mistaken or someone has fed you a line of anti-ism.
Studies that I have seen actually point to the fact that smokers take no more sick days, take no more time off, and have no more 'diseases' than nonsmokers, at least until later in life.