>Thawk, this isn't a Constitutional issue. Nowhere in there
>does it guarantee the right to smoke so it wouldn't require
>amending like it would if the ban were on speech or self
>incrimination.
>
>A ban on smoking would save hundreds of billions of dollars
>annually in lost time costs, medical costs etc. and would
>far outweigh the lost revenue from the sale of the products.
>Multiply an hour a day times how many smokers are up and
>down the elevators to go out and smoke times their pay and
>the number is astronomical.
>
>I am not for a total ban on smoking, primarily because it
>would work no better than prohibition did with alcohol. I am
>for a $5 per pack additional tax with half going to cancer
>and pulmonary research and the other half toward treatment
>so insurance rates for non-smokers don't have to escalate as
>much to subsidize the smokers care.
>
>Personally, I'd like to see an effective birth control added
>to tobacco products so no innocent children will be poisoned
>by the parent's poor choices but I know that will never
>happen and perhaps never be possible anyway.
>
>I'm really pretty open minded. I think anyone wanting to
>smoke in the presence of others, like in the truck stop,
>restaurants etc. should be able to once they get their pass.
>The daily pass would be available once they spend an hour in
>one end of a tub of water. The other end would be the
>receptor from the urinals. I'm sure they'd be ok with that
>since a no smoking area in a room is the same as a no
>tinkling area in a tub of water.
>
>Leo Bricker, owner trucks 3034, 4958
>OOIDA 677319
>73's K5LDB
>Highway Watch Participant, Truckerbuddy
>EO Forum Moderator
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>Support the entire Constitution, not just the parts you
>like.
Wow, Then they should go one step further and Ban all alcohol products. Look through all the facts. Drinking kills more people each year than smoking.
Yes I smoke and I no longer drink (16 yrs) What if we were to say that all right handed people can not drive truck? then what?
And when working in a place where I could smoke, my time was equal to the others who went and took their breaks eating candy bars and drinking coffee.
PS should we also Ban all recruiters who lie to us, just to make the monthly quota numbers?