Wednesday, January 26, 2005
This is so wrong
I don't smoke. I don't for a number of reasons, among them the freedom to hike moderate-sized hills without feeling like I'm on the moon.
The fact that I don't smoke, however, doesn't mean I condone companies who choose to fire employees who smoke AT ALL, whether at work or at home.
The company's founder said that "I don’t want to pay for the results of smoking." What about fat people? What about people who hang out and bars and screw five or six different people every weekend? What about people who live in lower-income locales and are more likely to get robbed and/or killed because of it? What about people who enjoy risky sports, such as rock climbing or hang gliding?
This kind of nonsense is possible because we ALREADY think it's okay to make professionals urinate into little plastic cups to prove they aren't sneaking into the alleyway to have a joint. That's massively invasive, but people justify that because smoking marijuana is illegal.
Hey, French people smoke like chimneys, yet live longer than the typical American. They aren't fat, though, have long vacations, and lead lives relatively free of typical American stresses. Sounds to me like WEYCO's founder is jumping on the politically correct anti-smoking bandwagon, lumping the world's problems into a little white roll of paper filled with a common American weed.
Chill out, people. We pump gallons and gallons of carbon monoxide into the air because of our devotion to gasoline-powered automobiles, and consume enough chemicals in the foods we eat to keep our bodies preserved well into the next millenium. Smoking is the least of our problems.
I don't smoke. I don't for a number of reasons, among them the freedom to hike moderate-sized hills without feeling like I'm on the moon.
The fact that I don't smoke, however, doesn't mean I condone companies who choose to fire employees who smoke AT ALL, whether at work or at home.
The company's founder said that "I don’t want to pay for the results of smoking." What about fat people? What about people who hang out and bars and screw five or six different people every weekend? What about people who live in lower-income locales and are more likely to get robbed and/or killed because of it? What about people who enjoy risky sports, such as rock climbing or hang gliding?
This kind of nonsense is possible because we ALREADY think it's okay to make professionals urinate into little plastic cups to prove they aren't sneaking into the alleyway to have a joint. That's massively invasive, but people justify that because smoking marijuana is illegal.
Hey, French people smoke like chimneys, yet live longer than the typical American. They aren't fat, though, have long vacations, and lead lives relatively free of typical American stresses. Sounds to me like WEYCO's founder is jumping on the politically correct anti-smoking bandwagon, lumping the world's problems into a little white roll of paper filled with a common American weed.
Chill out, people. We pump gallons and gallons of carbon monoxide into the air because of our devotion to gasoline-powered automobiles, and consume enough chemicals in the foods we eat to keep our bodies preserved well into the next millenium. Smoking is the least of our problems.
