Cleveland Clinic to urine test for cigarettes!!!?

Question

a excerpt from the Plain Dealer...
Smokers and chewers need not apply for work at the Cleveland Clinic.

Beginning Sept. 1, Ohio's second-biggest employer will no longer hire anyone who uses tobacco. The Clinic, with 36,300 employees, will have a bigger job making its work force in Ohio and Florida smoke-free. The Clinic will phase in the hiring policy, which will not affect current employees. It will extend to all vendors employed on Clinic campuses, however.

Beginning Sunday, all applicants will take urine tests screening for nicotine use. Job seekers won't be flagged unless their nicotine exposure passes a threshold that rules out people exposed only to secondhand smoke.

....any laywers out there to protect my rights?
this is wrong on so many levels,even if you are a nonsmoker you should be worried about your rights .This is a "slippery slope"they take govt funds, medicare, grants ect. that said I admit that there are much more pressing issues for our country. but wow

Answer 1

I doubt any lawyer will be out there protecting your rights on this. They made way too much money creating the anti smoking hysteria to begin with.

I am a very passionate supporter of the Second Amendment. I have so many gun grabbers telling me that I should not be so rigid and just allow a few "reasonable restrictions.

I always use the anti smoking model as my example as to why reasonable restrictions do not work.

As I recall from childhood the beginning of smoking restrictions appeared reasonable. They merely banned smoking on airplanes; reasonable enough.

Now look where we have landed.

Never give up a single freedom; even one you don't utilize (I do not smoke). Because f you do not defend one freedom they will be coming after another.

Answer 2

Absolutely legal. The Supreme Court said so. In fact, they could fire any of those 36,000 employees who smoke.

In order for an infringement on your rights to be legal, the 'infringer' must demonstrate a compelling interest. In this case, several justifications could be presented. Corporate health care costs, gov't reimbursements of those costs through premiums, health related attrition, absenteeism affecting delivery of care to state covered recipients, and I'm sure a lawyer could come up with a dozen more reason to justify the policy. Either way, the Supreme Court ruled that all companies can test for nicotine the same as any other drug and take steps to eliminate its usage among employees.

Answer 3

first I don't smoke and wish no one else did, but, I have also preached about giving up our freedoms no matter how small as they will keep chiseling away at our freedoms until they take what few we have left away and our people will sit on their collective arses and let it happen, and when they do wake up it will be to late to recover the lost freedoms we have enjoyed, ( that our forefathers fought and died for,) I am ready to join any group who is opposed to our gov, and the deterioration of our freedoms , wheather it be the K,K,K, Nazi party, or any other group, Are you???

Answer 4

I for one am glad to hear this. Smoking is an awful habit and people who are guilty of it are disgustingly selfish. I mean, taking your own life is your right, but killing others, people you love? That's just plain sick. In my opinion smoking cigarettes should be illegal. Who's it going to hurt? No one. Infact, it's something that everyone would benefit from, including smokers.

Answer 5

Maybe GOD will burn them to the ground, put a plague on their families, and take away all their worldly goods. That sounds like justification for war to me!!! They really want to start one don't they? They seem to be itching to shoot some of us with our own people.

Answer 6

Thank the Democrats :) If you think this is bad, just wait till Hillary gets in office.

Answer 7

Unbelievable. Welcome to the New World Order.

If I have a choice between tyranny or smoking, I'll choose smoking.

Answer 8

So????