Big Brother is watching you (& your cigarettes)

[angledge]

A US firm sacks four of its workers after they refuse to take a test to determine if they are smokers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4213441.stm

Comments

[llefser.livejournal.com]

I suppose an argument can be made that an employer should be allowed to make sure its employees aren't using illegal drugs.

On company time, perhaps. But I don't think it's the company's business to know what its employees do on their own time. It's bad enough that we tolerate this sort of intrusion over illegal substances, but to extend it to legal ones is completely wrong.

Sure, a privately owned company can do what they want provided it's legal, and this isn't illegal. But perhaps it should be.