[camle]

15 years after hire, eh? kinda makes me think that the real reason for termination has more to do with salary (the longer term workers tend to earn more) than it doesn smoking. the smoking sounds more like an excuse than a reason in this light.

[Kretek]

My understanding is that the persons who were fired, were fired for refusing to provide urine samples for tobacco-use analysis.

The policy, however, stated that if the analysis came back positive the person would be fired.

I'm sure there's a tactical legal advantage to doing it one way or the other, providing a sample and getting fired vs. not providing a sample and getting fired...

My understanding is that Weyers is a former football coach and is somewhat of a health & fitness freak, gets offended at the sight of out of shape people, etc.