My wife was reading in Newsweek today about how Scott's Miracle Grow conducts random urine tests for nicotine and fires employees who fail. Needless to say my outrage was through the roof after hearing that, as I feel that would be like firing someone for drinking coffee. Anyway, it got me to thinking.
We know that most of the world has grown to think of nicotine use as a very dangerous, unhealthy, and immoral addiction.
We know that we need to change that perception if we are to have any hope, but how are we going to accomplish that?
Education is the key, but it is going to take forever at the rate we are going.
What we need is to get people to pay attention to us, and to care about what we have to say.
There are two ways I think we can actually do this.
If a government entity were to either fire someone for nicotine use, or decline to hire them for nicotine use, which I don't think has ever happened. But if it did, they could be sued for discrimination. The other way would be for a private company to fire someone for nicotine use when they either were not informed of, or did not agree to the conditions beforehand. If so, they could be sued for wrongful termination or something.
Such a lawsuit would get some serious attention I would think.
Have I not thought this through correctly?
And is there no examples of this taking place anywhere yet?
We know that most of the world has grown to think of nicotine use as a very dangerous, unhealthy, and immoral addiction.
We know that we need to change that perception if we are to have any hope, but how are we going to accomplish that?
Education is the key, but it is going to take forever at the rate we are going.
What we need is to get people to pay attention to us, and to care about what we have to say.
There are two ways I think we can actually do this.
If a government entity were to either fire someone for nicotine use, or decline to hire them for nicotine use, which I don't think has ever happened. But if it did, they could be sued for discrimination. The other way would be for a private company to fire someone for nicotine use when they either were not informed of, or did not agree to the conditions beforehand. If so, they could be sued for wrongful termination or something.
Such a lawsuit would get some serious attention I would think.
Have I not thought this through correctly?
And is there no examples of this taking place anywhere yet?
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