Smoking Job Interview

[Don]

Here's a good one for you...
My wife went for a job interview last week at a new banquet hall opening in town. The woman who owns the business interviewed my wife in the bar of the business and smoked throughout the entire interview.
The lady did mention that the 'smoking' section is going to be turned into the 'Adult Section', separate from the 'Family Section' with the new law banning smoking in establishments coming Jan 1st to Illinois.

I just found it profound that this owner is puffing away while interviewing potential new hires. My wife thought of it as a throwback to those days when the people on the tv-talk shows used to smoke like it was no big issue. In my opinion I think the owner was being rude to do this.

[Flo]

I hope your wife declines this job Don. To smoke is bad enough but to pass second hand smoke on to others is bordering on criminal. The addiction reveals itself.

[Dot]

A smoker would never find a job like that!!

But I've seen sooooo many changes in my lifetime, since I go back so much further than the rest of you. I worked in offices through the 70's and 80's, and always smoked. When Charlie was in the Air Force, we bought cigarettes (overseas) for 80cents a carton, $1.00 for filtered ones. We still smoked in theatres, etc. Even in the 80's the grocery stores had ashtrays around. And would you believe...the Doctors' offices and hospital rooms too! Is it any wonder that us older ones are addicted? .
It was just as normal and everyday as eating through most of my life.

Dot

[ncpops]

Right Dot, we grew up with the notion of smoking to be part of the "in" crowd. Dinner, relaxing, church, home school yard. No fear of our lives being threated, no worry about less running endurance. Interviews too. Home smelt of smoke, but until we moved away and found fresh air, we thought everyone smoked or were "square".

Times do change and we've been given enough evidence today to make intelligent decisions.
A choice to be healthy or sickly. And yet persists the thinking "it won't happen to me". Right

Jimpops