Originally Posted by
reCALcitrant
What are you all smoking? Do you think that all those fat asses out there smoke? All the knee replacements from overweight pilots. Not to mention diabetes etc. Do you think 250 pounds at 5'10" is professional looking. I have seen a lot of that. I think they should hire no fat people. Sound absurd. So does your point. I am actually ok with the airline not hiring smokers. However, they should be able to discriminate against fat people too. I hate the way our public has been sold this bill of bull**** that tobacco is the devil. My God, what's happening to our freedoms in this country?
Actually, no one sold anything to me. I figured it out on my own when I dug my hands into a 35 year old cadavers' black lungs and brittle heart in an autopsy. She smoked for 17 years. I still gag when I think of the smell of the remaining rotting lung tissue in the plural cavity. The sight didn't help either.
But you might be onto something, reCAL. Obesity does play a big part in heart disease and many overweight pilots lose their medical every year from heart complications and other vascular issues. Good point, reCAL.
Originally Posted by
reCALcitrant
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Amen brother....I can't believe what I am reading on this post.
What can't you believe? That smoking is detrimental to your health? I think I'm going to get blue in the face before I get through a head made of bricks. <waving white flag>