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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Others felt that smokers were bigger tippers, willing to forgive minor slips in service/timing, or were just generally nicer people and more fun to be around.
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I'll agree with everything you said in your post, but I just want to point out that our entire worker-protection system is sort of built around the concept that we don't let higher pay or nicer conditions or shorter hours or . . . whatever . . . substitute for worker safety. Thus, you can't pay your steelworkers extra if they're willing to forgo the costly tying-off process for high work, and you can't let them have shorter shifts if you can take those pesky and speed-killing guards off of their presses, and the like.
So, the "higher-compensation-from-smokers" argument is never gonna fly. It will probably come down to the eventual answer to the "what does second-hand smoke do to your health" question.
