Native_Floridian's Blog

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nati -- here we go again ...

I suppose your arguments of unemployment and welfare carry a little weight, but have you ever considered the medical costs and costs of lost productivity associated with all the smoking-related diseases?

I assure you, the figures are staggering -- do a Web search.

you seem to forget that while you have the right to smoke, we have the right not to hire you. In some places, smoking is not allowed on the property, so that means if you try to smoke on your fifteen minute break and have to walk off property to do it then you are prolly taking more then a fifteen minute break, HOWEVER what you do on your own time is up to you and I dont think anyone should have to go through testing to see if you are taking anything that at this time is perfectly legal for you to take.

Smoking creates welfare cases which cause us to pay higher taxes. LOL, That's a pretty big stretch. However, if it's not my tax dollars then it's my kept dollars paying for dry cleaning to get the stink out of my clothes. Your point only seems to prove that one way or another smokers are going to cost us all. To me that's just another reason to ban it.

Native_Floridian: Am I correct in reading the other blogs that this is something thats hit you personally.. Either way heres a cheap cop out from you Canadian native counterparts.. They've won alot of challenges due to the fact they relate smoking to ceremonial rights, I love it LOL.


swansong2 you know when I was in the manufacturing end of things us smokers took shorter breaks and put in longer days than the non smokers so.. Maybe it's not the smoking thats killing us but the lack of our casual life style. and lack of work ethics that alot of non smokers have.

twizlled, that's EXACTLY it, when I *WAS* employed, I PAID a HEFTY amount for "health insurance" and as you stated I WAS PAYING FOR IT, so how am I costing the company money when:

#1. I AM PAYING for MY HEALTH INSURANCE and MY SMOKING has never, not once caused me to absent from work, other medical problems I have had, but NOT because I smoke and NO, the other medicals have no correlation to smoking!

#2. I ONLY took breaks at my appointed times, unless I was working on something and it could not be left unfinished, then I would take my 15 minute break.

#3. I have worked for companies that don't allow smoking on their property, HOWEVER all you have to do is walk to the CITY/COUNTY sidewalk area and YOU ARE OFF PROPERTY! it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out and it doesn't make you take your break any longer than allotted either.

#4. No, it's NOT a far stretch about welfare, think about it, if you fired from a job and can't get another because companies are BANNING smoking, where else are you going to go. This WILL become a reality within time if these bans ARE allowed to continue.

#5. I say we SHOULD file a CLASS ACTION suit!