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For about two decades, smokers have been pushed steadily out of the workplace, as lawmakers and employers have sought to minimize exposure to second-hand smoke.
Employers have confined smokers to designated areas, moved smoking areas outside buildings,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and limited smoking breaks. Now, some companies are opting to push smokers out of the workplace altogether.
That’s the case with the Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA), an employer of 45 that announced earlier this month it would no longer hire people who smoke. The firm is the first private employer in Massachusetts to take such a step, though several others elsewhere – such as the Cleveland Clinic, a medical center based in Ohio; Alaska Airlines; and Union Pacific Railroad – have also stopped hiring smokers.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
E-cigarettes are being used by many smokers to quit smoking real cigarettes. But the FDA, which found tiny levels of carcinogens in some E-cigarettes, is doing everything it can to keep smokers from getting their hands on this far less dangerous product.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
The FDA’s strategy entails calling for E-cigarettes to go through expensive testing that medicines and drug devices have to endure, rather than have them regulated more loosely,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ironically, as are their more dangerous cousin, cigarettes.
While we’d certainly benefit from a review of their safety, as well as their efficacy as cessation devices, you don’t need to be a heart surgeon to know they aren’t as dangerous as the real thing. Just this month, the FDA sought to overturn a court decision that denied it the right to confiscate E-cigarettes shipped from overseas.
Meanwhile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], some states and municipalities seek to ban the use of E-cigarettes everywhere that smoking is already prohibited.
Similarly, the FDA and activist groups oppose the use of snus, or smokeless tobacco, as a means of harm reduction.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Manufacturers describe snus as “spit-free” pouches of smokeless tobacco. Studies from Sweden show that snus has been used effectively to help smokers quit smoking cigarettes. Again,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], snus isn’t a “safe” product, but it is up to 99 times safer than cigarettes. But so-called “health groups” are making it a priority to stop smokers from using snus here. And the FDA and other agencies are leading the charge in the fight against tobacco harm reduction.