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by gilster
on Mon May 14, 2007 7:58 am |
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The Big Y chain in New England will ban smoking starting July 1st:
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In order to further protect the health of our employees and customers, Big Y will become a smoke-free workplace on July 1st. Smoking will not be allowed within 50 yards of our retail locations.
(Scroll to bottom of page for above quote)
http://www.bigy.com/
Please contact their HQ concerning this
https://www.bigy.com/contact/index.php
This is pushing the envelope too far...
So, if I'm a customer, and I park my car within 150 feet from the building and am finishing a cigarette- what will they do - cut up my coupons?
Many of these stores are not stand-alone buildings - what of the other businesses nearby?
Also curious if they will stop selling cigarettes.....
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by linkup
on Mon May 14, 2007 8:17 am |
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I left a comment with them,and they will just love it! Ha!
My Comment:
How we live and eat is none of your business.
And your smoking ban of 50 yards is preposterous.I hope you lose every customer and employee that smokes.Segregation is what you want and will get!
P.S. I don't see how 50 yds in all directions cannot effect someone elses business.They must own all the property as a business to impose such a ban,like Honda did. |
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by linkup
on Mon May 14, 2007 8:32 am |
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Just sent them another comment:
Why don't you ban smokers from entering your stores,give us the smell test.Go broke you pukes! |
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by gilster
on Mon May 14, 2007 8:33 am |
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Thanks Linkup....
This policy is outrageous and goes way beyond the state regulations in MA and CT [where these stores are]
MA doesn't even have a foot rule to doorways and windows.
This goes way beyond Scott's -in regulating 'Customer' behavior. |
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by linkup
on Mon May 14, 2007 8:38 am |
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| This kind of crap is going to cause hardships,depression,and anger of present employees.Changing our society without regard to addicted smokers is very dangerous ground! |
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by slap_maxwell
on Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:59 pm |
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Being a property rights activist, I have no problem with any business deciding on their own whether they wish to allow smoking or not on or in their property. After all, I (and all of us) maintain the right not to do business there if I/we don't like it.
When the machine of the State gets involved and coerces businesses into doing the State's (meaning the health-nazi/control-freaks/anti-property rights crowd) bidding against their will or judgement, however, I have a really big problem with. That deprives not only the property owners of the right to have their property used as they see fit, it means a businessperson cannot even run his own business in the manner he sees fit and cater to the customers he or she chooses to cater to.
Incredible that in the 21st century American government is becoming more and more of a totalitarian system than a system of freedom, rights and responsibilities. |
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by jsidney
on Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:51 am |
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I just sent a suggestion to www.bigy.com
Customer Service Suggestion:
"Post signs within 50 yards of your stores "Smokers Keep Out! We don't want your business"
All together now. Let's deluge them! |
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by tnsmoker
on Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:13 pm |
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Don't have Big Y in my area.
Y'all are free to send them this information:
From Dr. Michael Siegel's blog
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2006/05/st-cloud-florida-rescinds-smoker-free.html
Dr. Siegel quoted part of an article in the Orlando Sentinel in his blog. From the article:
"What seemed to many like a good idea several years ago has gone up in smoke. St. Cloud's ban on hiring employees who use tobacco, which was enacted in 2002, has been revoked by the City Council. 'Number one, it never did do what it was supposed to do -- help on insurance,' City Manager Tom Hurt said. 'And, it put a cramp on hiring.' With more jobs to fill as the city grows, there was a shrinking pool of workers to fill the jobs."
Does smoking increase medical care expenditure?
Leu RE, Schaub T.
The impact of smoking on medical care expenditure is analyzed, challenging the widespread belief that smoking imposes a large cost burden on health services systems. The results imply that lifetime expenditure is higher for nonsmokers than for smokers because smokers' higher annual utilization rates are overcompensated for by nonsmokers' higher life expectancy. Population simulation, taking into account the effects of past smoking on present population size and composition, suggests that 1976 expenditure would have been the same if no male born since 1876 had ever smoked. The male population would have been larger, particularly at older ages, increasing medical care expenditure, but this increase would have been offset by lower annual medical care utilization rates. Thus the results imply that smoking does not increase medical care expenditure and, therefore, reducing smoking is unlikely to decrease it.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6419350&dopt=Abstract |
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by Jay
on Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:27 pm |
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Here's a Q. If I'm smoking outside of this supermarket and they feel I'm less than 50 feet away from the store, can I demand a measure as they do in football?
In serious terms, smoking less than 50 ft away while outside is not an issue with blowing wind. |
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by dumpstermcnuggets
on Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:45 am |
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gilster wrote: The Big Y chain in New England will ban smoking starting July 1st:
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In order to further protect the health of our employees and customers, Big Y will become a smoke-free workplace on July 1st. Smoking will not be allowed within 50 yards of our retail locations.
(Scroll to bottom of page for above quote)
http://www.bigy.com/
Please contact their HQ concerning this
https://www.bigy.com/contact/index.php
This is pushing the envelope too far...
Sad that I only read this post months after you first posted this. But I will definately boycott them and not patronize their stores, if I'm ever in CT or MA, and see one of their stores! |
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