EU Sweden municipality ponders ban on smoking at home during working hours

[Vocalek]

Landskrona municipality in southern Sweden is mulling introducing a ban on staff smoking during working hours, even if they are working from home.

Council touts work at home smoking ban - The Local

The proposed policy has received support from some quarters however, with the education committee keen for the ban to be extended to the smokeless tobacco products "[COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]snus[/COLOR][/COLOR]".

"We think that working hours should be completely free of [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]tobacco[/COLOR][/COLOR] and should also include snus. The most important thing is that adults set a good example," said the education committee chairperson Lisa Flinth to the [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]newspaper[/COLOR][/COLOR].

 

[pianoguy]

Wow, that committee has too much time on its hands!

 

[Thulium]

Landskrona municipality in southern Sweden is mulling introducing a ban on staff smoking during working hours, even if they are working from home.

Council touts work at home smoking ban - The Local

"Why does Lisa Flinth believe that workers who want to concentrate, pay attention, remember things, and avoid making mistakes are setting a bad example?"

Great comment, Elaine! For that matter, without evidence that Snus causes any more harm than "eating marmite, having unmarital sex without a condom, voting SD, wearing socks with sandals, fat men wearing speedos, beards (for men or women), wearing lycra - for anyone over 70 KG's, Hawawian shirts, leopard skin luggage, bad breath, [or] owning a Brittney Spears album and worrying hedgehogs", how do they reach the conclusion that it is setting a bad example at all? ...if they're working from home, to whom are they setting an example (good OR bad) anyway???

 

[DC2]

I used to think George Orwell was a little bit off his rocker.

 

[rolygate]

@Thulium
It's for the children of course. Why else?

I'm surprised and disappointed. Please do better next time

 

[BadThad]

WOW! Talk about over the top! Plain Insane!

 

[milo hobo]

@Thulium
It's for the children of course. Why else?...

This reminds me of a comedian (but I can't think of his name). Man do I hate the children.

 

[rothenbj]

W. C . Fields "Children should neither be seen nor heard from -- ever again." or how about " I like children. If they're properly cooked."

 

[sqirl1]

must be where all the rich stuck up hockey moms live in Sweden, because there's no way that craps gonna fly elsewhere. Still, all you guys in Sweden gotta make a big stink over this so nobody else gets any ideas.

 

[Vap0rJay]

I used to think George Orwell was a little bit off his rocker.

Not at all, in fact -- it is being confused as an instructional how-to versus a work of fiction to heed warning. So much... I imagine in not too many years it will become banned literature.

 

[DC2]

So much... I imagine in not too many years it will become banned literature.

It would be awfully hard to get any more ironic than that.

 

[pianoguy]

I'm thinking the committee must've been hanging out with this elk:

BBC News - Drunk Swedish elk found in apple tree near Gothenburg

 

[Vocalek]

I'm thinking the committee must've been hanging out with this elk:

BBC News - Drunk Swedish elk found in apple tree near Gothenburg

And in a related story, an elk framed a man for murdering his wife: BBC News - Sweden woman's 'murder' committed by elk not husband

 

[rothenbj]

I'm thinking the committee must've been hanging out with this elk:

BBC News - Drunk Swedish elk found in apple tree near Gothenburg

I had the same, but much smaller situation with a racoon. I came from work and he was laid out, glassed eyed, in my drive way. I managed to get a bath towel under him and we carried him out into the open field behind the house. We put on work gloves and used broom handles to work him onto the towel but probably could have lifted him up he was so out of it. Other than his eyes moving around a bit, he didn't have much body function.

In the morning he was still out there, stirring a bit but still unable to stand. He was gone when I got home.

 

[Vocalek]

Maybe his drinking buds stopped by and talked him into going out again.

 

[sqirl1]

Not at all, in fact -- it is being confused as an instructional how-to versus a work of fiction to heed warning. So much... I imagine in not too many years it will become banned literature.

no way. My class read that in high school and you can find it in any school book store. It's considered a classic by everybody at this point, banning it wouldn't help anything.

 

[Vocalek]

I used to think George Orwell was a little bit off his rocker.

Back in 2009 when we were holding our breath about the FDA banning e-cigarettes, and then learned that the very organizations that are supposed to be for public health and against smoking were trying to get rid of what (finally!) worked, I commented that I felt as if I had awakened in the middle of 1984 (the book, not the year.)

 

[cookiebun]

Hey, theres a link for the drunk elk story on the same page as the goofy council story:
Drunken elk rescued from Swede's apple tree - The Local

 

[Vocalek]

Oh yeah? I spotted a strange looking picture there and clicked on it. Went here: Top ten Swedish tech innovations - The Local

I believe that it's the "inflatable bicycle helmet" that looks like a fashion model wearing the poufiest silver hair you have ever seen.

 

[DC2]

I will never wear a bicycle helmet, no matter what.
That is the line I've drawn in the Nanny sand.

The things I did as a kid, without helmet, would make your eyes bleed.
And I'm still here, and better for the experience.

EDIT: I must admit, I've finally started wearing a seatbelt.
EDIT: Could it be the Nannies know best for us?