Oklahoma Lawmaker: Let Businesses Fire Cigarette Smokers

(GOVT SLAVES)   If you live in Oklahoma and smoke cigarettes, look out: a local lawmaker is pushing a bill that would let companies fire smokers in order to save on health care costs.

State Sen. David Hold (R) authored Senate Bill 327 after discovering that Oklahoma law actually protects smokers from workplace discrimination.

“I was just kind of incredulous that there was a protection like this because, as I said, these are the kinds of protections you’d think we have for race and gender, not smokers,” he told KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City.

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