Maryland Hospital Bans Employees From Smoking Anywhere On Earth

dailycaller.com ^ | 7/8/2014 | Tristyn Bloom

[rktman]

Starting next year, Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis will require potential employees to pass a drug test–detecting nicotine.

This so-called “job screening” will bar any applicants who smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes, snuff, hookah, and even e-cigarettes from being eligible for employment. While the hospital already has a smoking ban on the premises and surrounding sidewalks, this policy forbids new employees from consuming tobacco anywhere, at any time.

[fwdude]

We have plenty of freepers all in favor of employment at will (hire and fire whomsoever you choose for whatever reason), and then we have the freepers commenting on this thread.

Bingo.

[Cementjungle]

I am surprised insurance companies have not stepped in and denied insurance to anyone who pot smokes (for auto insurance)

Or alcohol.

[JimRed]

They're the employer so they can pretty much dictate your terms of employment.

Should they NOT be able to do so? Their business, their money. < /Devil's advocate >

[Moonman62]

What if a person is using nicotine patches or gum?

[MamaTexan]

That's the one thing I never got with these policies-

If they can dictate what you do 24/7, why don't they have to PAY you 24/7?

[lastchance]

I am certain this is more about health insurance costs than not. Welcome to one of the results of demanding employers pay/provide for health insurance. Stinks don’t it?

[Arm_Bears]

I recall a CDC report from the 1980’s, long since buried, which documented an infectious disease rate among male homosexuals that was far higher than that of the general population.

If cost control for healthcare is the driving factor, shouldn’t employers be able to discriminate against queers as well?

[Starboard]

Maryland is a hell hole, ruled by Facist Democrats.

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According to a recent poll, nearly half the population of Maryland would leave the state, if they could. This is an indictment against overbearing Democrat policies and taxes.

BTW, Maryland’s tax crazy governor, Martin O’Malley, wants to be your president.

[mykroar]

I applied for a job with the Emporia, KS police department over 20 years ago and they had a no smoking policy - on or off duty. I don’t smoke and never have, but glad I didn’t get the job and still remember that lunacy to this day.

[mavfin]

I would figure in legal pot states, it should probably be handled like alcohol. Don’t come to work high or drunk, and don’t get high or drunk at work or on lunch; i.e. just like now if you have a couple drinks at home before you sleep, you’ll be sober when you wake up, you can’t smoke so much as to leave you high in the morning.

(I’m an ex-tobacco smoker, and I don’t smoke pot myself. I don’t really approve of legal pot smoking, but, if it was voted to be legal by the people of the state, I don’t know that it’s my place to say they can’t. )

[I want the USA back]

Will they also check for pot? No, because the left loves pot but hates tobacco.

[knarf]

With the high jacking of our language, we get the collateral high jacking of American thought.

Maybe 60 years ago or so, we could say something like, 'nobody would hire a fag', and everybody (fags included) would nod in assent.

NOW, the absolutes don't exist, so .. anybody can hire fags and the fags rejoice

right is wrong and wrong is right.

[RedStateRocker]

I will find it funny as hell if someone who was/is in support of drug testing for employment gets busted by this. Don’t smoke cigs, have lots of friend who smoke weed and do their jobs perfectly fine.

Any testing of blood, breath or urine without a warrant, should be illegal.

[vette6387]

“They should tell them what to eat too, while they are at it. The employees would be healthier if they stuck to a diet strictly controlled by their employer.”

Actually, in a perverse way, that might be helpful since 90% of the nurses in most hospitals look like Rosie O’Donnell or Oprah Winfrey! Never understood how “healthcare professionals” are seldom “healthy looking.” The companies who make “scrubs” must be a subsidiary of Ahmed the Tentmaker.

[Responsibility2nd]

So the hospital is right when they ban smoking.

Why all the grousing by others on this thread.... I don’t understand.

You want freedom to smoke? Fine, then don’t work at that hospital.

[RedStateRocker]

Should read :”IMHO any testing of blood, breath, or urine without a warrant should be illegal.”

[2banana]

It is interesting logic that will be used against democrats. The gay lifestyle is extremely unhealthy. Abortions are linked to cancer.

So, if I am an employer, I can choose not to hire these persons using the same democrat logic...

[Starboard]

There are lots of potentially hazardous and/or unhealthy activities that people engage in. Where does this slippery slope end?

Eating too much ice cream could eventually lead to health problems and an early death. Should that be banned too?

Bottom line: liberals want to control your life, they want to make all the rules, and they want to run the agencies that monitor you.

[Responsibility2nd]

Any testing of blood, breath or urine without a warrant, should be illegal.

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So when your doctor wants to run routine lab tests, he needs to obtain a warrant first?

Honestly! Think before you FReep next time.

[IronJack]

Are they going to check for AIDS? High cholesterol? Diabetes? High blood pressure? Pregnancy? If the argument is that off-hours behavior has a cost to an employer, then all those things can be factors too.