St. Louis aldermen OK smoking ban

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St. Louis -- St. Louis aldermen have tentatively passed a smoking ban that is contingent on St.

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The right to a healthy workplace. It is the responsibility of the employer to provide a safe and healthy environment for its employees. While many workers choose to work in workplaces that permit smoking, others may prefer not to be around smoke but persist because they need the employment. A smoking ban opponent may simply say,“work somewhere without smoke,” yet I would argue that your insistence on smoking in public is not as important as that employee’s health and livelihood. Smokers’ unwillingness to control their urges should not force people to change jobs in the name of personal health and welfare.

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There's another thread in the forum on this same topic. It is full of people ignoring the premise that the voters will have the say on whether this approach takes effect.

That way, they can feel free to bombard us all with their "damn that governmental interference in the convenience of my fix" vitriol and pretend they are making sense.

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