US Discrimination Against Smokers

FIRST they came for the smokers…

Citing the burden they place on taxpayers who pay for government workers’ health insurance, Sarasota County officials announced Monday that they no longer will hire smokers…

According to a report by the National Workrights Institute, a survey conducted in 1988 by the Administrative Management Society found that about 6,000 businesses nationwide “discriminate against off-duty smokers” and “the number has almost certainly increased since then.”

Then they came for the fat…

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