No New Municipal Hires for Pipe Smokers in Largo Florida...

[dudleydipstick]

When things like this pop up enough, they begin to sound normal.
This new development is as silly as anything in Gainesville or anywhere else, but I can't say it's shocking or surprising at this point.
It's not even surprising that people find it acceptable or don't bother to question it.
Story link from Reason Magazine

 

[cortezattic]

I hope somebody sues them in an anti-discrimination or EEO complaint, and makes them prove that health care costs, or any other problems, arise from the use of non-cigarette tobacco products.
It's pretty easy to be complacent when it's not your ox being gored, but next will be Pepsi and McDonald's Big Macs...
And as for health care and insurance (etc.) costs, I believe costs attributable to alcohol use far exceed that of tobacco in any form.