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Overproof wrote:
The lament of a Tree Hugging, Harrowsmith Reading, Tofu
Eating, Closet Liberal!!
I bet you donate to PETA.....
I'm a life long member.........People Eating Tasty Animals
CM
"Gilligan" wrote in
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I must disagree with your otherwise brilliant opinion
good Captain. If you give my argument the consideration
it is due, you will find great benefit to
those, such as ourselves, who maintain a state of
hardiness suitable to a life of manly adventure.
I encourage smoking. I want people to smoke ten packs of
cigarettes a day. There is no cost, but only benefit to
society for such behavior. The benefit
is that the majority of these smokers will die just
before they can collect
Social Security or Medicare. They will have paid all
their lives into the system, but perish before
collecting a dime. I and others such as the robust
good Captain Neal will collect said benefits for 4 or 5
decades. I thank these smokers for keeping the costs of
these social programs so low. Besides
smoking they should consume large amounts of butter,
mayonaise and Crisco. Their poor health will keep them
out of the woods, off of the waterways, bikepaths,
mountains and the like. I thank all those who have chosen to perish
early, for
they have kept the cost of unconstitutional social
programs low. Gilligan
"Capt. NealŪ" wrote in message
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YES! It's about time they started getting tough with
stupid smokers who run up everybody's health bills and
who pollute everybody's air.
Company Fires All Employees Who Smoke
Michigan Firm Won't Allow Smoking, Even On Employee's
Own Time UPDATED: 8:20 AM EST January 25, 2005
LANSING, Mich. -- Four employees of a health care
company have been fired for refusing to take a test to
determine whether they smoke cigarettes.
Weyco Inc., a health benefits administrator based in
Okemos, Mich., adopted a policy Jan. 1 that allows
employees to be fired if they smoke, even if the
smoking happens after business hours or at home.
Company founder Howard Weyers has said the anti-smoking
rule was designed to shield the firm from high health care
costs. "I don't want to pay for the results of
smoking," he said. The rule led one employee to quit
before the policy was adopted. Four others were fired
when they balked at the smoking test. Chief Financial Officer Gary
Climes estimated that 18
to 20 of the company's 200 employers were smokers when
the policy was announced in 2003. Of those, as many as
14 quit smoking before the policy went into effect. The
company offered them help to kick the habit.
"That is absolutely a victory," Climes said. On the
company's Web site, it states: Weyco Inc. is a
non-smoking company that strongly supports its
employees in living healthy lifestyles. The above is from:
http://www.wral.com/news/4126577/detail.html CN
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