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From: elric@proper.UUCP (Elric of Imrryr)
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Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all th
Message-ID: <287@proper.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Jun-86 03:21:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 10 03:21:35 1986
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In article <930@puff.UUCP> mading@puff.UUCP (Eric Mading) writes:
>I would have these urine/blood tests kept under guard to insure that there
>is no tampering with the samples.  Yes, these guards would even watch you
>pee and make sure that you don't add anything to the urine.

Is this for real?
>
>I have one very good reason for using drug testing and refusing to hire smokers.That is money.  If I hired a drug-free (except for alcohol, prescription drugs,
>over-the-counter medication, and caffiene) work force, my insurance rates would
>go down and each employee would have a lower health insurance deduction.  This
>equals higher take-home-pay in two ways (I could and would pay a higher salary

	When the day comes that people will trade personal  freedom for another
few dollars a week, I lose faith in man.
I hope you do start a company so, I can have the pleasure of boycotting it...

	Yea! You lock youself in cages of fear, then complain that yea lack
freedom...

	qantel!proper!elric
>and there would be a lower deduction for health insurance).  Also, research has
>shown the dangers smokers inflict on non-smokers and the dangers of smoking,
>not just to human health.  Smoking is a fire hazard.  If a smoker leaves his
>cigarrete or cigar still lit in his ashtray and doesn't put it out because he
>is going to smoke it later and forgets about it, the cigarrete or cigar would
>continue to burn shorter on the live end and, as anyone who has had a science
>course can tell you, the end that goes in your mouth would get heavier and 
>fall out of the ashtray and on the carpet.  This would cause a fire.  As a
>result, fire insurance rates would be increasing.  If I didn't hire smokers,
>I could keep my fire insurance rates down.