Drug Free Work Force: Is Nicotine A Drug?

[PapaBloog]

Holy crap! There going to do drug screens for nicotine as a determinant of employment?

Nicotine Addicts Ineligible For Hospital Jobs 1/1/11

 

[Petrodus]

There's another thread on this subject

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-e-smokers-will-not-hired-2-fl-hospitals.html

 

[Vocalek]

Poetic justice. The ad displayed next to the ASH press release:

TRUTH Behind Vapor Sticks
Do Not Try Vapor Stick Until Read Report You'll Be Shocked What Found
Health Journals Report - Electronic Cigarette Review

 

[kristin]

All of AHS's arguments against hiring nicotine users ONLY apply to SMOKERS. "Smoking adds to health costs. Smokers smell."

So where is the justification behind refusing to hire smokeless nicotine users??

 

[Aaeli]

Guess they better take all caffeine drinks out of there too. Have to have a drug free workplace, after all.

 

[kristin]

These two new converts, which are eagerly being watched by still more hospitals likewise thinking of not hiring smokers, base their new policies on one in effect in Ohio for more than three years which happily reported that testing applicants for nicotine "really hasn't affected our applicant pool like we thought it might."

Of course not - you can quit smoking for a few days/weeks before the test and the nicotine is out of your system. Smokers are used to the quit-relapse cycle so quitting for a few weeks if you're motivated to get a job would be pretty easy.

 

[Cee_Jay]

Don't forget to give up tomatoes and tomato based products LOL.

 

[FyreDragon]

(Question from a state EMS exam) T or F : Oxygen is a drug. The correct answer is True!

Darned... And I just got used to being able to breath freely again! LOL