Geisinger will stop hiring smokers

Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre PA) ^ | 12/29/11 | Steve Mocarsky

[Just another Joe]

Other than middle school girls and elderly Chinese, does anyone smoke much anymore?

In a word, yes.

Approximately 20% to 25% of the US population smokes some form of tobacco.
I give you an approximation and a range because it depends on whose survey/"scientific result" you use to determine the amount.
Some say 18%, some say 23%, some say 27%. You takes your pick and hope it's right.

[dforest]

I bet they will hire dope smokers.

[dforest]

Yeah, but if a smoker dies in a car accident they would take the organs and transplant them in a heartbeat.

[raybbr]

ray, you and I don't agree on much...

Curious. What don't we agree on. I hardly ever remember posting to you.

[eXe]

And the health police state marches on.

Once a job tells you that you can no longer ingest a legal substance, its not a job, its slavery.

[Just another Joe]

(In best Foghorn Leghorn voice)
I may, I say I may have you confused with someone else.

[going hot]

(In best Foghorn Leghorn voice)

Hmmm, sounds more like Fritz Hollings.

[Ditter]

While lung cancer is very bad (several of my hard smoking relatives died from it) I’d take it over COPD. Many of my family died from COPD (eventually). They gasp for breath for years before finally dying from it. COPD is a nasty way to spend your last years on earth.