I'm uncomfortable with this policy. I alo work in health care, and the writing is on the wall that our whole campus will be smoke free in the next 18 months. Since it's a large campus, smokers will essentially have to walk to their cars and lock themselves in to smoke. I don't mind that so much, but dictating what people do on their own time is offensive. Maybe they should draw blood after lunch each day to see who ate a Twinkie!
Seriously though, this is an ongoing and worsening intrusion into the rights of the individual. Will they start checking your car's data chip to see if you speed on the way to work? Should they fire you for that, since it raises the risk of a huge medical bill? The rights of your employer to dominate your life have to have some limits.
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