Let's ban stress in the workplace

[dcfirefighter]

No employee should have to work in a dangerous workplace, so let's ban stress, or at least those people who cause stress in the workplace: customers, coworkers, and bosses.

http://www.stress.org/job.htm

60% to 80% of on the job accidents are stress related.
There are 6-7000 on the job deaths every year. There are 10x as many job related deaths every year. I feel it's safe to say that job stress kills some 40-50,000 people a year. For comparison, second hand smoke from all sources according to the institutes that have a strong vested interest in eliminating it, kills roughly the same amount. That's roughly 40,000 heart related second hand smoking deaths (apparently not due to being overweight, lacking exercice, eating poorly, or STRESS) and 3,000 deaths due to lung cancer (also apparently not due to xylene, toluene, uranium, etc. spewed daily into our environment thanks to fossil fuel use).


http://www.thinkandask.com/news/smoking.html
14 'first-world' nations have higher life expectancies AND a greater proportion of adult smokers

Full disclosure, I frequent bars. I generally don't like a lot of smoke in my bars. I visited Ireland pre-ban, and found my eyes watering in the bars there. I occasionally bum a cigarrette from my friends, usually while I'm in a bar. Every bar I've ever been to that effectively banned smoking, sucked: E-clubs, airport bars, bars in malls, bars in montgomery county, MD, bars without decks in Delaware. I haven't been to NYC since they've banned smoking. I feel that the smoking ban movement is not truly about worker safety (which I support) but rather about the apathy of the majority coupled with the crusade of the vocal minority. If the goal is merely worker protection, why then aren't employers allowed to protect their workers as they do in other industries: separation, ventilation, and filtration?