Reply #38: They accept the risk because they need the job.

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Same reason why people accepted the risk of machines that would tear their arms off. Of course, they would rather have a job and their arms.

So saying it wouldn't help is simply not true. Of course it would. Any degree of safety added helps. All you are saying is that the workers would rather not be helped, because you assume that they, like the actual smokers, are making a free and uninhibited choice to inhale carcinogens, that they like it, or don't care.

I can make the assumption of choice for a person who is lighting up, but I'm not going to make the same assumption for someone in the same room. Given the of workers in chicago who backed the ban, I think that it's pretty clear THEY think it helps them.