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Originally posted by TheRedneck
If smoking is on it's way out, so is freedom. Obesity is already being attacked. Check your BMI, you may be 'morbidly obese' without knowing it. Next will be eating meat. Then it will be how you smell. then how you dress. Individuality and personal freedom is on it's way out, not just smoking.
Thank God in Heaven above I'm getting off the grid. My mountain will be a smoking area as long as I live, and that's a pledge.
TheRedneck
Originally posted by Dinamo
loosing job if i don't quit smoking? that means i can't smoke even at my home.
Originally posted by Dinamo
but I thought that what REALLY matter is that i'm good, honest, hard working employee that gives his best for his employer. and maybe for that i should get even a pay rise.
Originally posted by whatukno
Cigarettes are legal my militant anti smoking friends.
Originally posted by Griff
Originally posted by BlueTriangle
I don't have an issue with an employer having a non-smoking policy since they're likely subsidizing health care and/or life insurance. I have a big problem with them attempting to enforce it on the spouses of their employees.
Well, spouses of employees are on the health insurance also.
What I want to know is when do we start discriminating against the fat people in this country?
Originally posted by whatukno
Cigarettes are legal my militant anti smoking friends. And I am sorry second hand smoke does not cause cancer unless inhaled in concentration for many years. The occasional whiff of smoke you all get is not going to harm you that badly.
Children who breathe this smoke are more likely than other children to get sick. They may have more mucus. The fluid in their middle ears may build up and cause ear infections. They may develop pneumonia, bronchitis and other lung infections. If they have asthma, it may get worse.
While it is unlikely that a person would suffer cyanide poisoning from cigarette smoke, breathing in small amounts of hydrogen cyanide may cause:
Both nonsmoking and actively smoking premenopausal women exposed to secondhand smoke (passive smoking) on a regular basis appear to have an increased risk of getting breast cancer. The results of a review of 19 published studies looking at passive smoking and breast cancer risk were published in the November 2005 issue of International Journal of Cancer.
I am sick of these anti smoking programs. this is what is bringing our country down. People forcing others to fall into line. Sorry if my smoke offends you, but when I am outside or in my own home it's my damn right to light up.
No way on this, this is too far and I bet someone who is fired over this policy could sue for discrimination or wrongful termination!
[edit on 6/18/2008 by whatukno]