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Arlington to consider banning smoking at workplaces  

Northern Ireland smokers flout law in work vehicles  

Five years after Northern Ireland went smoke-free, drivers of work vehicles are still the biggest culprits when it comes to flouting the law, it has been revealed.

Today is the fifth anniversary of legislation banning smoking in the workplace, and in closed public spaces, as well as in vehicles such as taxis, buses, vans and lorries.

But while pubs and restaurants have shown a 98% compliance rate, Department of Health statistics have revealed some smokers are ignoring the law and lighting up behind the wheel while driving a work vehicle.

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Fort Worth no-smoking proposal pits employers' healthcare costs vs. personal freedoms 

HOWARD: Fort Worth's hiring policies shouldn't change to ban smokers  

LETTER: Smokers asked to ‘air off’ after they stub out 

Smoker-firing bill dies  

• Louisiana Senate committee rejects bill allowing employers to discriminate against smokers  

Legislative labor committees shot down an effort to allow companies to discriminate against employees who smoke but gave approval to a bill expanding whistleblower protections Thursday. Senate Bill 113 would have repealed a two-decade-old law prohibiting companies from taking into account tobacco use when hiring, firing, promoting or considering any other employment action.

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Simpsonville passes workplace smoking ban 

City to comply with court ruling, strengthen smoking ban  

The Jakarta administration will comply with the Constitutional Court ruling that requires building owners to provide smoking rooms, scrapping the ban against the rooms in a gubernatorial decree.

Governor Fauzi Bowo, however, said that the city vowed to strengthen efforts to uphold the smoking ban as regulated in a bylaw.

“We will not stop our efforts in upholding the smoking ban as mandated by the bylaw. We will boost our efforts and we will also seek help from NGOs to help monitor our efforts,” Fauzi said.

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City Attempts to be First in America to Hire Only Non-smokers 

Ft. Worth Weighs Hiring Ban on Smokers  

Baylor tobacco hiring ban in spotlight, as Fort Worth mulls similar cost-cutting measure 

Fort Worth discusses hiring only nonsmokers  

• More firms pressure staff to stop smoking 

A number of companies are going beyond the usual anti-smoking campaign to put smokers at a disadvantage for promotions or perks.

Samsung Electronics Co. recently joined in taking this strong-handed approach, signaling similar moves in other large firms.

The electronics giant sent out an e-mail to its 35,000 employees in the device solution division on Friday, warning that smoking will be detrimental to their chances for promotions to the executive-level, dispatch to overseas branches or selection as overseas regional experts.

A non-smoker will be chosen over a smoker with similar evaluation scores for promotion, which means it will be nearly impossible for smokers to become executives, a Samsung official said.

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Fort Worth to consider tobacco ban for new city employees