The Work Clinic

As an ex-smoker, I was able to quit, so why can't they!

As a smoker myself, I agree that employers should not have to pay for employees to attend smoking cessation clinics. However, I would also like to add that I don't take cigarette breaks at all when I'm at work. I choose to smoke during my lunch hour. The same cannot be said, however, for the numerous tea/coffee drinkers that I work with, who spend at least 10 minutes each day making a brew. I don't hear anyone moaning about lost productivity through the making rounds of hot drinks day after day

Ah come on fag ash Lil surely you have to admit that generally smokers request additional breaks to puff on the cigarette. What really infuriates me is when i spot pregnant workers smoking. And to see customers pulling on to the car park observing such filth. Not good is it.....

Yes it's not easy stopping smoking but you really need to think of the benefits to your health and the health of those around you. I quit 3 years ago after smoking for 12 years and now never think about lighting up. I wonder if some people are also concerned that without fag breaks there will be less time for office gossip!

You cold hearted lot, why shouldn't an employer take interest and possibly add incentives for their employees to better their health? Better health leads to increased productivity and performance, which inturn creates more profit for the company. This sort of employee benefit also creates loyalty of employees, as they realize the company actually cares about its employees health. There are 2 sides to every story, I suggest you look at it from both angles.

Indeed, those poor companies. The opportunity cost alone of having those employees take a whole 5 or god forbid even 10 minutes to smoke. Damn, I hope the stockholders don't jump ship when they find out.

Thanks Mr Miller for showing, once again, that as human beings we are really all about business and economics, and being human is really a pesky side effect that drags us down every once in a while when we really should be maximizing share holder value, increasing the bottom line, creating relationships with potential customers, and in general, give up any kind of choice for your choice for money as ultimate end goal!

is it just me, or have we mixed means and ends at some point...?!

How do you do… FAGS

"We want to help you"

What? If vilifying large groups of society for no reason, ostracising them to the cold climate, bombarding them with nightmarish obscene imagery of cancerous lungs and diseases while already threatening them with death, illness and deformed babies and, AND charging those people more and more money for the privilege of doing that sounds, like a heap of help. Sounds like an invasion of our civil liberties to live, without judgment. Considering the smoking masses make up 1.1 billion of us or 17% of the worlds population. I think that makes a pretty strong, probably not healthy, minority.

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