U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy

Re:U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy by incangold on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:02PM (#21949744)

As someone who took up smoking when I was young, stupid, and vulnerable, describing it as a personal decision doesn’t fit my reality. I quit eventually but it took 15 years of stop-start, combined with a constant, desperate sense of guilt and failure.

There are limits to free will. Depressed, anxious, abused and sick people are statistically more likely to make poor life choices. Let’s give them a break.

Agree with what you say though. I live in the uk and it did ease the guilt a little knowing that I was at least paying my way.

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Re:U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:32PM (#21950596)

Tobacco companies, and really every major branded company product, rely on manipulating shoppers vulnerabilities to make money. Advertising has caused a lot of problems that we cannot address until we excise the source.

I'm fully supportive of banning all substance use from tv that is not made by a nonprofit for educational purposes, forcing all substances to use generic black and white labels that Are only differentiated by the brand name written in size 12 font on the back of the container with the warning labels in size 16+ font on the front. Likewise banning all advertisements, and the sale/distribution of branded products associated with companies that sell drugs.

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Re:U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy by mytailorisrich on Saturday January 04, 2020 @04:58AM (#21953974)

Some vulnerable people will always make bad decisions, be it smoking, alcohol, drugs, or what not.

But the point remains that smoking is overwhelmingly a personal decision.

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