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If companies try and limit who can work for them for silly reasons they'll have trouble finding good employees. Other companies will hire good employees who have characteristics that the first company didn't like and do a better job.

I work at a company that refuses to hire smokers. Those who were hired before the policy went into effect are allowed to continue. I believe it's a total of one person now.

I don't believe we've ever fired someone for taking up smoking, or for smoking after they were told that it's against policy.

There was one person brought on as a temp with the understanding that they would have to quit smoking. They ended up quitting the job because they weren't able to quit smoking.

I don't know what would have happened if they pressed the issue, but they decided to voluntarily quit because they had agreed that it was a requirement.

Your company made the right choice by not pressing the issue with existing employees that had been hired before the policy took affect.It seems like they even gave this temp a fair chance to work under the new policy,unlike this company that tries to impose and press the issue to far.