Hospitals Won't Hire Smokers

This is unfair, I am a smoker, I take the same amount of breaks as my non-smoking co-workers. I am salaried and work an average of 50 hrs/week.

I wonder what is the cut off for BMI ???

I see workers playing solitare on work time.....

This is a matter of work ethics not whether a person smokes or not. Non-smokers "hideout" within facilities, too.

What next?

Exactly.

Nicotine and the hundred some other chemicals in cigarettes can be considered as drugs and there are many employees who abuse these drugs multiple times on a daily basis.

As a strict non-smoker, I notice the smokers in the workplace who duck out for "a quick smoke".  These quick smoke breaks are often overlooked and have been so historically, as smoking used to be the norm not so long ago.  

What is one quick smoke turns into two, three, five, etc. per shift.  How long does it take to get to the nearest designated smoking area, light up, drag and come back in?  FIFTEEN MINUTES per "quick smoke".  (some longer now that many hospital campuses are not allowing on property at all, requiring those that smoke to go off campus to light up...)  Now multiply this by as many times as they duck out PLUS their designated break times...  and you have a set of very unproductive employees.

How does this set with the non-smoker class?  Yeah, you guessed it, we notice.  We Notice.  Does anything ever get done about it?  Not that I have seen in my career.  

Drug test them.  No excuses.  Quit the habit and be hired, or else go work for the King or the Clown.