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| WHO stops hiring smokers Financial Times - Friday, December 2, 2005 The World Health Organization yesterday became the largest international employer to stop hiring smokers in an effort to promote its campaign against tobacco use, reports the Financial Times. WHO job advertisements now carry the statement,” WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or other tobacco users.” The ban will not apply to existing WHO staff or those on temporary contracts who apply for permanent positions for the next two years. The agency is offering programs to help staff stop smoking. Smokers-rights groups called the practice discriminatory. As a United Nations agency, the WHO has fewer constraints than many national companies. -----------------------------------------------
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