Don’t call me a hypocrite.
I do support businesses’ rights to choose who they serve. The point here though is that one group is being singled out while others (who are actually more high risk) are not all in the name of political correctness.
I learned in grad school from a nursing professor that only 15% of smokers will actually develop cancer. Where he got that stat & if it’s true I don’t know but it’s interesting.
By the way, radon gas causes more lung cancer than smokies (think Dana Reeve). So if Geisinger wants to be consistent, then they should only hire non-smokers who have a radon reduction system in their house.
I did a 3 month rotation at Geisinger during grad school. Their cafeteria served the usual fatty, fried, greasy processed crap. That was the only place around to eat. Wonder if they will promote better nutrition since they claim to want to foster a healthy environment for employees & patients.
Bunch of PC hypocrites.
Okay, then you should have no problem with this.
So if Geisinger wants to be consistent, then they should only hire non-smokers who have a radon reduction system in their house.
If they have the right to choose then they also have the right to be inconsistent.
Right?
Did this professor also tell you how many develop COPD? Smoking is nasty but I do not like the obvious discrimnation. I wonder how much homosexuals cost us annually with mental help issues/ sexually transmitted diseases, in addition to the rampant drug use in these communities.
“I learned in grad school from a nursing professor that only 15% of smokers will actually develop cancer. Where he got that stat & if it’s true I don’t know but it’s interesting.”
Never mind cancer it is COPD that you have to worry about. When I hear of someone getting that I know why they got it SMOKING! Like my last idiot redneck neighbor who was ordered by her doctor to quit smoking because she was getting it but still took off her patch to smoke. I don’t feel any pity for her in fact when she has to haul an oxygen tank around 24/7 I will laugh in her face and say “you just had to smoke didn’t you?”
and raybbr you are correct is it private business let them hire who they don’t want!
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.