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There is a considerable evidence showing that smokers are less productive than no smokers. Cost to organisation besides those related to medical care, health, and life insurance, include absenteeism and loss of on the job time. Estimated place time loss per day due ti smoking at 35 minutes a day,or 18.2 lost days per year per employee who smokes. In addition, smokers are absent on average three more days per year than other employees. Estimates place the cost of smoking to an employer at around $4500 per smoker per year. These data suggest that it is in an employers best indicates to hire only no smokers or to fire smokers who cannot overcome their addiction.

Question 1: Would such policies , of hiring only nonsmokers and firing smokers, be acceptable under human rights legislation in your province or territory? Are smokers a "protected group under human rights legislation? How would you defend these policies to an investigator from a human rights commission?