"Employers are realizing the majority of health costs are spent on a small minority of workers,"Ya, like pregnant women...
Please tell me you are not comparing the miracle of birth and life itself to smoking filthy cigarettes that bring only death and misery to everyone that has the misfortune of becoming addicted to them.
Boy I've heard it all now...
None of these articles can seem to state what the coercive employers are going to save by doing this. And this crap about smokers taking more time off... I've never noticed that, and I'd never heard that until the last couple of years, and I've never seen any studies that bear that out. I think it's a made up statistic.