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Originally Posted by filtherton
Arguably, very few people are being forced to work anywhere. Whether a job is "at will" or not doesn't seem to generally hold much sway over whether the people who work in that job can be legally exposed to toxic chemicals on a regular basis. I like it this way.
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Technically, by listing that this restaurant allows smoking (By putting up signs that THIS is the smoking area), then they have done their legal right to show that there will be a chance that you may breathe in smoke if you eat/drink here. No law yet has smoke from cigarettes listed on a Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) as a toxic checmial, so there is no legal aspect to "warning" customers or employees about the dangers of smoking. Hell, I don't think you could walk down the street of any town and find someone who DOESN'T know smoking is bad for you.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
But that restaurant would essentially be getting a permit to slowly poison its employees. I mean, I appreciate how nice it is to smoke inside, but I don't think doing so is necessarily consistent with the way the issue of employee exposure to toxic chemicals is generally handled. Maybe if employees were issued gas masks?
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Have you seen some of the chemicals that you have to use in a restaurant to clean up to OSHA and US health inspection standards? Give me 10 years of smoke as long as I don't get the heavy duty degreaser on my arms, it will eat the skin right off of you. In some places they MAKE you wear masks to use that, now THAT is poison.
Slowly poisoning their employees? Man, that must be a great training session at that restaurant, I can see it now. Watch this video on proper food handling practices, after that is a video on corporate rules, then you will get your apron, shirt, tie. This is Tina, you will be shadowing her for the next 3 days and oh yeah, here is a cyanide pill you must take every time that you come into work. If you don't get a pill at the first of your shift, ask the MOD and you will get one from the 1st aid cabinet. If you work a double you only have to take one.
My point again is: CHOICE. You
choose to kill your lungs with smoke. You
choose to work in a job that allows smoking. You
choose to eat at a restaurant that allows smoking. Your choice is to not be around smoke and not to smoke. I respect your choice and I only ask you to respect my choice to smoke when I want too (in the proper places, when no one around cares, yahda yahda yahda).