Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center bans hiring of nicotine users

[The Straight Story]

Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center bans hiring of nicotine users

MATTOON (IL)— Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center’s recent decision to no longer hire people who use nicotine will help protect patients and help it send an appropriate message, hospital officials say.

The hospital recently announced that people who use tobacco products can’t get jobs at the hospital, starting July 1. Current employees will be exempt.

Other health care organizations in Illinois and the country have made similar decisions, according to Eric Benson, the hospital’s vice president for human resources.

“Many health care organizations have moved in this direction,” Benson said. “We want to be the role model for health in our community.”

The hospital started a no-smoking policy on its grounds in 2008. However, one of the hospital’s physicians said “third-hand smoke” can cause health problems, just as being around someone who’s actually smoking.

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[Aristus]

1. It's a step in the right direction.

Any smoker who has objections to this is free to quit smoking, and no longer be subject to the ban, right?

[SidDithers]

2. Good...nt

Sid

[newfie11]

3. Lol I worked at that hospital about 10 years ago

I don't smoke and never have but I gotta tell you there are oil wells everywhere. Cigarettes may be the least of their problems.
The water table is very high. When pouring a patient a glass of water(at that hospital) I noticed there was a ring around the inside of the picture. It was oil! This was city water.
Wells are contaminated, we had a very expensive water purification thing on our well. Even with that you could not see the bottom of the tub.
Some folks that had ponds chose to use them instead of a well. They hooked up a purification system.
In interviewing women I was shocked at the cancer rate. Most all had family members with or died from cancer and all accept it as their fate.
The wild life looked sick. I saw foxes that looked very sickly and crows that were smaller and missing lots of feathers. This was not just a springtime thing.
We had 3 children and wanted them out of there.
Moved away after about a year and half.

So my point is nicotine users are the least of your problems!

[MrSlayer]

4. I'm not surprised that people here are in favor of this unfair hiring practice.

The smoke nazis here are hard core.

I think it's a ridiculous, discriminatory practice. What you do in your personal life shouldn't be any of your employer's business.

[RedCappedBandit]

5. If drug testing is ok, so is this.

[1-Old-Man]

6. I hope someday we become as intolerant of alcohol as we have of nicotine

[The Straight Story]

7. I hope someday we stop allowing companies to run our personal lives, but some LOVE it

The same people who preach about "your body, your choice" turn their back on their supposed values the second they find a way to control people making decisions that they don't like.