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Originally posted by armageddon272:
How would they even know if the worker smoked at home? Is there a legal way for them to know?
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That is a good point. There are people who smoke sporadically, like just in the weekends, and they *would* be able to smoke nowhere near the job and still be smokers. How would they be checked upon?
Anyway. I think a company's perfectly entitled not to hire someone on the ground that they're a smoker, but to actually tell existing staff they should quit or lose their job is a bit rich. However, there are other lifestyle choices that people get fired over, and about which there is no outcry, like taking a tattoo or piercing in an invisible place (yes, that is forbidden in some companies even if the tattoo/piercing is never visible during work hours) or anything to do with sex, like playing in a porn movie (an extreme example, but a lifestyle choice over which you can get fired ).