I could not agree with you more!!!!!!!
The last thing on earth needed are more laws and regulations. This guy made a business decision, a bad one IMO, but a business decision anyway. Let the market and current or future employees show that to him...........not the government.
Yes, it is the last thing on earth we need, more rules and regulations and government.
Therefore, employers have got to exercise self-restraint. What this guy has done is not just a bad decision, it is an abuse. Now, either he'll stop it, or laws will have to be enacted so that he and others CAN'T do that any more.
What doesn't fly very long is abuse that is unanswered. Because then other's copy it.
It looks like smoking will have to become another "protected right" in more states, like it is in 29 already. Pathetic that it has to come to this. Employers ought to be reasonable and not indulge in this sort of overreach.