Following quoted from W.C. Douglas M.D. Newsletter - - -
"Forget secondhand smoke -- smokers are officially second- class citizens.
If you're a smoker and looking for work, don't bother sending a resume to Chattanooga's Memorial Hospital -- you're not wanted there. The hospital says it won't hire smokers, no matter where they might smoke or how often (or how little) they do it.
Goodbye, freedom and privacy -- we hardly knew you.
Even nicotine gum chewers won't be eligible to work at the hospital under this cockamamie new policy.
The hospital says it will test prospective employees for nicotine along with illegal drugs...lumping smokers and crackheads together. Fail the test and you have to sit in timeout for six months before you're allowed to apply again.
Don't think it ends here. If they get away with this, it won't be long before other businesses quickly follow suit.
I know it's hard to see past the lies and half-truths that cloud the smoking debate. But forget tobacco and how you feel about it for a moment -- because this is an issue that goes well beyond cigars, cigarettes and nicotine gum.
It goes far beyond smokers' rights, too. This is about AMERICAN rights. It's about allowing employers to invade our private lives and tell us which perfectly legal activities we can and can't do in our free time and in our own homes.
Today, it's smoking...tomorrow, what will it be? Perhaps your choice of food -- after all, if they hide behind the health argument to kick smokers out of the workplace, aren't bad eaters next?
And you can bet your belly they won't just be testing for sticky buns. Perfectly healthy bacon-eating low-carb diets would be considered unhealthy by the typically ill-informed standards used by most hospitals.
Or maybe instead of food they'll go after what you drink -- so you can forget all about that beer at the end of the day if you want to keep your stinking job.
Eventually, it could be what you read...what movies you watch...and who you're friends with.
And you thought ObamaCare was all we had to worry about."
"Forget secondhand smoke -- smokers are officially second- class citizens.
If you're a smoker and looking for work, don't bother sending a resume to Chattanooga's Memorial Hospital -- you're not wanted there. The hospital says it won't hire smokers, no matter where they might smoke or how often (or how little) they do it.
Goodbye, freedom and privacy -- we hardly knew you.
Even nicotine gum chewers won't be eligible to work at the hospital under this cockamamie new policy.
The hospital says it will test prospective employees for nicotine along with illegal drugs...lumping smokers and crackheads together. Fail the test and you have to sit in timeout for six months before you're allowed to apply again.
Don't think it ends here. If they get away with this, it won't be long before other businesses quickly follow suit.
I know it's hard to see past the lies and half-truths that cloud the smoking debate. But forget tobacco and how you feel about it for a moment -- because this is an issue that goes well beyond cigars, cigarettes and nicotine gum.
It goes far beyond smokers' rights, too. This is about AMERICAN rights. It's about allowing employers to invade our private lives and tell us which perfectly legal activities we can and can't do in our free time and in our own homes.
Today, it's smoking...tomorrow, what will it be? Perhaps your choice of food -- after all, if they hide behind the health argument to kick smokers out of the workplace, aren't bad eaters next?
And you can bet your belly they won't just be testing for sticky buns. Perfectly healthy bacon-eating low-carb diets would be considered unhealthy by the typically ill-informed standards used by most hospitals.
Or maybe instead of food they'll go after what you drink -- so you can forget all about that beer at the end of the day if you want to keep your stinking job.
Eventually, it could be what you read...what movies you watch...and who you're friends with.
And you thought ObamaCare was all we had to worry about."
