No Smoking!

Fired for smoking?

Interesting article about people being fired because they refused to submit to testing that would allow the employer to determine if they were smokers. Raises issue about limits to which an employer can/ should go in ensuring that you are healthy and productive.
http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2005/01/25/jobs_up_in_smoke.html

A Medscape piece about promoting wellness of employees to save the company money. (registration needed to access it)
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/492362_print
A bit about an experience implementing a non-smoking policy. http://businessjournal.net/stories/020697/health.html
This is the story they ran before that one about smoking at work. http://businessjournal.net/health197.html

Site with links on quitting smoking. http://www.tobaccofree.org/quitlinks.htm

Center for Disease Control on Tobacco
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/index.htm

Wired on the WHO anti-smoking treaty. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,58941,00.html

Story of a whistleblower-
As head of research and development of America's third largest tobacco company Jeffrey Wigand had access to info about "how the company misled consumers about the highly addictive nature of nicotine, how it ignored research indicating that some of the additives used to improve flavor caused cancer, how it encoded and hid documents that could be used against the company in lawsuits brought by sick or dying smokers" http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2002/05/wigand.html