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Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City
Penurious Penguin writes "On October 2, City Commissioners of Delray Beach finalized a policy which prohibits agencies from hiring employees who use tobacco products. Delray Beach isn't alone though; other Florida cities such as Hollywood and Hallandale Beach, require prospective employees to sign affidavits declaring themselves tobacco-free for 12 months prior to the date of application. Throughout the states, both
government and businesses are moving to ban tobacco-use beyond working hours. Many medical facilities, e.g. hospitals, have implemented or intend to implement similar policies. In some more-aggressive environments referred to as nicotine-free, employee urine-samples can be taken and tested for any presence of nicotine, not excluding that from gum or patches. Employees testing positive can be terminated. Times do change, and adaptation is often a necessary burden. But have they changed so much that we'd now postpone the Manhattan project for 12 months because Oppenheimer had toked his pipe? Would we confine our vision to the Milky Way or snub the 1373 Cincinnati because Hubble smoked his? Would we shun relativity, or shelve the works of Tolkien because he and C. S. Lewis had done the same? If so, then where will it stop?"
I do highly technical coding. I hate even the faintest whiff of smoke, which throws me into coughing spasms.
Don't deceive yourself that you are so special/necessary/clever/genius/exceptional that you self-justify your physiological addiction.
Your work and your innate talents have no connection to your problems. Work yourself out and become a better person instead of making excuses for yourself.
Then split off a separate health plan for them. I'm tired of my health insurance rates going up year after year because smokers force the average per capita costs up.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Yeah, but how fast would you have run 2 miles if you hadn't smoked?