Comments on: Escambia School Board Moves Closer To Tobacco-Free Hiring Policy

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:17:54 +0000

REGARDING:
“Smoking IS legal ! equal protection under the law…the US Constitution…I fought for it !…kurts….”

Nobody is being charged with breaking a nonexistent law. The idea, right or wrong, is that they WILL discriminate against smokers or tobacco users or however it is actually proposed. Nobody HAS to hire you or me for a particular job. If they decide to discriminate based on personal habits, they can do so. They won’t fire anyone they’ve already hired because of it, just not hire addicts.

I can imagine you asking, “How DARE you call ME an addict!”

Easy, you’d have to be addicted to still smoke despite the cost, harm you do your family members, health problems and alienation related to the practice. People start smoking to show how grown up they are then spend the rest of their lives wishing they’d been mature enough that they hadn’t.

David speaking truth
remembering dead addicts I loved

By: chichi

chichi — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:33:03 +0000

to bratt mom wow i am 70yrs old and smoked since i was 16 now you are telling me i could have lived to be 140yrs old if i bibnt smoke belive me i dont want to live another 70 yrs with all of the dolly do gooders telling everyone what is good for them

By: eab

eab — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:46:32 +0000

No sense arguing with a drug addicted person, folks. They won’t care who they hurt to satisfy their craving.

Just gotta wait for ‘em to die out and hope they don’t take us with ‘em. (grin)

By: Forgetting the Headline?

Forgetting the Headline? — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:41:51 +0000

Escambia School Board Moves Closer To Tobacco-Free Hiring Policy

Do I see, TOBACCO-Free or did I misread and see CIGARETTE Smoking-Free?

All I see are comments against people who smoke. Tobacco is not just a product used in cigarettes.

Teach your kids to do the right thing based on your houeshold opinions, they will make their on mind up when they sneak around and use tobacco behind your back or when they are old enough , age requirement wise, to make their own purchases.

By: dad

dad — Fri, 20 May 2011 09:19:00 +0000

If you want to smoke in the privacy of you home fine but you have no right to smoke around me and force me to breath it. I also don’t want to pay a higher insurance premium for you. If you choose to smoke pay it yourself. Where I work we do get a discount for not smoking on our insurance, it’s something like $5.00 a month. What a joke.
Also please don’t smoke around your kids. They have no choice to breath. And pregnant smokers, that is just plain selfish. Your cigarettes mean more to you than your un-born baby? I guess they do if you are pregnant and still smoking.

By: bratt mom

bratt mom — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:27:35 +0000

wow, really, hold your breath to not smell the smoke, u mean I can not breathe the air God gave me to live without smelling ciggarette smoke, I have to choke, cause my eyes to swell, get a migraine, and smell like smoke myself from being around it, just not fair and it only decreases your life expecantly by over 50% , I wished they would make them illegal period ! I am allergic to them and so is my son and its not right, if you want to smoke do it in your own home and not out where everyone else that is trying to live a healthy life has to smell it and be choked to death with it.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:30:13 +0000

Very Cool!! Politically correct descrimination!

Now using the same health care excuse can we add to this obesity…fat kills and costs as much if not more….plus it makes me sick to sit in the same room with someone who smell like krispy-cremes and a soda pop!

By: COPD

COPD — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:41:20 +0000

Concerning Ex-Smoker and your comment @COPD:
First, Tobacco Users, is not just smokers. Tobacco Users means anyone using a tobacco product. Dip, Snuff, Cigarettes, Cigars, Pipes, etc. I related to smoking because that is what I was classified myself as because that was my main tobbaco use..

If you are not wanting to smell “smoke” when you walk into a public place, when you exit your ride to this public lace, hold your breath until you get inside!
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I say educate yourself on the effects of COPD because it’s not the smell that offends me, I could care less if you smell like an ashtray or a bed of roses. Hold my breath you say–if you knew anything about this disease you would know that it’s impossible to hold my breath for more than a few seconds simply because my lungs are damaged. But who knows as an ex smoker if the lung cancer don’t get you it might just be the COPD, then we can hold our breath together as some jerk blows smoke at us because his/her rights are more important than my basic right to life.

By: TSC

TSC — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:43:42 +0000

The problem is not the smoking it is all the wasted time and money associated with it. Smokers health insurance is higher than a non smoker, but you can’t ask the the person to pay the difference. They feel they are entitled to health insurance and it should be at no cost because they have a county job. They take more breaks than non smokers to feed their habit (wasted time). Most county employees are paid the same or more as equal non county employees in this area.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:52:00 +0000

‘Ex-Smoker’ and tobacco users:

I will not point out the faults of the comments that I have read. I do not feel the need to defend my education while showing ignorance. I will only say, “I know what you mean”

I am an ex-smoker myself. According to the opinion of most, I am under educated because of my tobacco use, as well.

So goes life! There will always be tobacco users.