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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
I don't know if you're in a management position, but I can guarantee that if you were to suddenly deprive your hypothetical employees of their cigarettes, productivity would go down and psychotic rampages would go up. In the short-term, you would lose more time to nicotine withdrawal than to smoking breaks.
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And so, the answer for this company is to not deal with addicts as employees in the first place. I think that they did a pretty good job of giving employees who wanted to quit, the help they needed to do so. I do agree with some of the posters in this thread stating that this is a bad precedent for a company dictating what an employee can or can't do in their off-time. I wouldn't want a company I work for to forbid me from mountain biking or sky-diving because they are concerned about accident related claims. I don't think cigarette smoking falls in the same category. I support the idea this company is trying to put forth.