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-Land of the Free
The Feds Really Don't Want You to Smoke at Work
2014-08-22
[FREEBEACON] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking to ban all tobacco use at every work place in the country, including businesses that operate primarily outdoors.

The agency published a Current Intelligence Bulletin (CIB) on Friday that would advise the few workplaces that still allow smoking to end the practice, specifically targeting blue-collar workers in the construction and mining industries.

The document, which will be open to public comment for 30 days, provided multiple recommendations from the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Among them: ban smoking in outdoor work areas and have bosses ask which of their employees smoke so they can "promptly provide encouragement to quit."
Posted by:Fred

#2  Agreed - what the government is doing is fascism.

How about trying this instead...

The document, which will be open to public comment for 30 days, provided multiple recommendations from the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Among them: ban smoking in outdoor work areas and have bosses ask which of their employees smoke marijuana so they can "promptly provide encouragement to quit."


"Establish and maintain tobacco marijuana-free workplaces for all employees, allowing no use of any tobacco marijuana products, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco marijuana products by anyone at any time in the workplace," the document reads. "Ideally, this should be done in concert with an existing tobacco marijuana cessation support program."

A large segment of this country would make Ferguson race riots look like children playing in the park.



Posted by: Javising Snore4333   2014-08-22 09:57  

#1  I really don't want you to smoke at work either.

But what the government is trying to do is little more than fascism.

You have the choice to do unhealthy stuff. Insurance companies have the choice to charge you out the wazoo for it. And the government can fuck right off.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-08-22 00:45  

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