C_Clayton_Jones
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There are other criteria employers use to determine employment eligibility which are also not illegal, such as poor credit scores and previous employment records; and the City has a compelling reason supported by sound evidence as to the health risks of smoking. The policy is also applied equally to everyone.Smoking is not illegal. It is also stupid in my eyes, but it is not illegal. And to ban people from employment based on legal activities they enjoy in their private life is blatant discrimination.
No one would be able to make the case that smokers constitute a particular class of persons singled-out by a discriminatory policy.
It's just amazing so many can actually cheerlead for Government & Corporations controlling their private personal lives. What the Hell is wrong with this Country? How did we get to this point?
Actually this comports with libertarian dogma: the all-powerful employer (private property owner/property rights) with the universal authority to hire whomever he wants for whatever reason, regardless how subjective or capricious.