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Originally Posted by braisler
I would not employ a smoker. Addiction to nicotine, consumed through cigarettes, impacts negatively on health care costs, worker productivity, etc.
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wow... worker productivity? that's quite the odd stance. i recently quit smoking myself, but regardless, i dont see how it ever made me inferior to the rest of the employees in my office. <p>
i think that people have the right to choose what to do with their own body. apply different benefits to employees who smoke - thats all. make them pay that little extra more than it would cost them anyway on their own insurance. create a rule where people cannot smoke at work (and this does NOT include lunch hours, as you're not 'working'). but taking away the privilege of people smoking at home? are they drug testing too? upset that someone takes one too many aspirins in a day? taking a survey of how many people have ulcers in the office? history in the family of diabetes or heart failure? <p>
and ESPECIALLY - what you do on your own time is your business.