Hitler would be proud.

http://www.local6.com/news/14537611/detail.html

Check out the comment section on that link - pretty damning to the company owner.

The owner seems a tad bit overweight - he should fire himself. He is also old, which is a drain on the healthcare system. He should Logan's Run himself and check into Carousel. His crystal has turned colors.
Westgate Resorts

"Logan's Run himself." That's good!

I checked those comments too. The vast majority of respondents were saying the company went too far. Quite a few threatened a boycott.

Then, there were those few who were supportive of the policy. Is it just me, or does it seem like every time you read supportive comments from the Health Nazis, it looks like they're quoting from a script? They're always infuriatingly smarmy. Maybe that's just the personality type.

dave clark: "Hitler would be proud."

Oh, you bet he would. He's probably beaming up from Hell, or some Astral detention cell, or wherever souls like Hitler's go when they discorporate.

If you run a Google search on the exact phrase "Health Nazis" in fact, you'll turn up a lot of people who are brushing right up against praising the Nazis for their "science." Here are a few, right off the top of the list:

Robert N. Proctor: Nazi Medicine and Public Health Policy

Harry Clarke: Health Nazis Got It Right

Denialism in New Zealand's Health Industry! (Scroll to the last item on the page.)

See? They know what they are, and so do we.

Even when I checked my Yahoo email, after I logged out, the top story was this:

Congress Aims to Put Out Cigarettes

From that article:

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...tobacco's critics say health concerns have deeply eroded the industry's influence in Congress.

"The country and elected officials have really made a turn," said Bill Corr, executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Cigarette companies, he said, "don't have the opportunity to go in and push members as much."

And that's the way it is, as Walter Cronkite used to say. We're pawns in a game of who can buy the most congresscritters. Doing what's right isn't important, and upholding the Constitution and supporting freedom is the LAST thing on their minds. The only thing protecting smokers' rights was the evil tobacco companies, and now that their day in the sun is over, the Nazis can do as they like.

Funny how the mainstream media never mentions where Big Anti-Tobacco's money comes from, isn't it?

I too started my day reading th new and the 3rd story was the one about Congress.......my day is now ruined....

Here's a suggestion - write/email whaterver to the governor of FLA (Jed Bush, right?) - tell him we will stop buying products that are produced in FLA, that we'll never vacation there, etc....UNTIL, FLA protects smokers against discrimination.

Is this this guy Siegel a friend of the Weyco guy or what?

These CEO's and business owners curtailing smoking as best they can are defective mentally. They have to be. Some of them anyway. They can't seem to handle adversity.

A friend dies and they go whacko. No more hiring smokers. In my town (I posted about this not too long ago) a business owner prohibited smoking on company property after a friend of his died from smoking. In my state you can't discriminate in hiring when it comes to smoking status otherwise I'm sure he would've went that route.

A guy who's been working there for years (17 years IIRC) is on the verge of losing his job for being caught smoking twice on the grounds. Once more and he's out. He's said it's impossible to get off the grounds and back in time without being late.

To hurt and threaten your workforce just because a friend died is a sign of mental illness if you ask me. It doesn't help that they've been egged on by anti-smokers for years to hate smokers though.

Maybe some day they'll snap out of it and say, "My God, what have I done? How could I have been so cruel?", but what difference will it make by then?

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A guy who's been working there for years (17 years IIRC) is on the verge of losing his job for being caught smoking twice on the grounds. Once more and he's out. He's said it's impossible to get off the grounds and back in time without being late.

And the bastard knew that when he initiated the policy, I assure you. Why don't you suggest to him he look for employment elsewhere, since he means nothing to this scum? Sooner or later, he's going to be fired, you know that-it's much better if you leave on your own. I think this type of shit pisses me off more than anything else-smokers are hired, go years and years buil;ding seniority, then are shoved in a small smoking area, then outside, then off the property, eventually get fired because they can't make it back. A Grandfather clause would make me happier, with present smokers being exempt, and no smokers hired in the future. I thank God I'm retired, I couldn't last long in the new workplace.

There was an interesting article about an AD Executive in our sunday paper, he was the poster boy for the local smoking ban. We were told how his second wife died in his arms while his two sons from a previous marriage watched. She supposedly was a reporter forced to attend smoke filled political meetings and contracted a rare form of cancer. Of course it could have only been brought on by attending these "smoke filled" meetings.

Our Smoking Ban has been in effect less than two years, but the article stated he has been married to his current wife for over two years. Evidently he did not miss wife number 2 that much.