Old Smoke

“Old Smoke”

Business Ethics

May 27, 2012

How Renfold can handle the situation

A variety of options regarding the stale smoke odor in the file room were available to Charles Renford. To start with, Charles Renford should recommend a new policy on smoking to Redwood Associates that will restrict smoking in the workplace because the simple separation of smokers and non-smokers within the same air space may reduce but not eliminate the risk of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. Frank and Alice are smoking in their office and the other employees are breathing in secondhand smoke, which is a more deadly source of lung diseases and cancers. Tobacco smoke contains around four thousand chemicals; two hundred of them are known poisons. Then, there’s the practical option of relocating the file out of Frank and Alice’s office. This solution will work for everyone--Frank and Alice get to keep their office where they are free to smoke and the file room will remain smoke-free. Frank and Alice’s office can now become the smoking area for all the smoking employees. Another option is for Charles Renford to ban smoking in the office by gently and compassionately telling the both of them that he is putting into effect that there will be no more smoking inside the building, and that all smokers will now have to resume their smoking outside the building, and that an established and secluded location has been made permissible for smokers. Now, is the greatest time to ban smoking inside the buildings since so many businesses and companies are going with smoke-free buildings and campuses. Explain to them how the smoke from their cigarettes will have a minimal effect on the nonsmokers. Making sure that the smokers are aware that puffing on their puffing their cigarettes in places such as the bathrooms, privates rooms, etc. is not permissible and that smokers would be in violation. Also, Mr. Charles can enforce the smoking ban, as the Smoking Act states...