The information the author, Mary Klenowski, gathered from journals, books, and magazines was very interesting. Her essay seemed to make a lot of sense. People get fired because they smoke all the time. And even though i'm really not a fan of smokers, there is no reason they should be fired. The business' reasoning being that their health is in danger and it causes the health insurance to go up, is not reason a person who smokes should be fired over a person who eats junk food and is obese. That just doesn't make a lot of sense. The obese person has the same amount of risks as a person who smokes. The people getting fired aren't smoking on the job. It's on their own time. They aren't endangering the building by setting it on fire. The business cant take control over what people do on their own time. We'd turn into a "totalitarian dictatorship".
I like the argument in this story and I agree just as much as you do on the story. Smoking isn't something I'm a fan of, but obese people are putting themselves at risk just as much as a smoker. I also like the use of a title picture to make your writing more interesting and letting the reader know what they're gettin into before they begin reading the excerpt.
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