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BANNING smoking in the office is one thing, but refusing to hire smokers may damage their health and exacerbate social inequalities.
The stopped hiring smokers in 2005, while the US has suggested that the preferential hiring of non-smokers would help to discourage smoking. A handful of US companies has adopted the policy in recent years. “We’re trying to eliminate smoking,” says Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, which .
Critics have previously called the policy…
