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July 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A disgruntled hospital employee claims she got the sack because she smelt of cigarette smoke at work.
Stephanie Cannon said she was made to feel ‘like a leper’ at the Minnesota hospital where she worked as a receptionist.
She insists she never smoked at the Frauenshuh Cancer Center, cutting back on her pack-a-day habit to avoid smoking on her breaks or in her car.
But even buying new clothes and keeping her work uniform in a sealed plastic bag wasn’t enough for her employer, Park Nicollet Health Services.
Cannon claims she was told by her supervisor to avoid contact with her husband, also a smoker, in the mornings before work and to shower at the hospital rather than at home.
But she resisted their efforts to help her quit, telling kstp.com: ‘not now, the time isn’t right,’ adding that the atmosphere became ‘volatile’ after she turned down the help.
Cannon said she is now searching for a new job and has contacted an attorney about what she considers to be discrimination.
‘What I do in my home or outside of work when I’m not punching into that little clock is my business,’ she said. ‘I shouldn’t have to be made like I’m a leper.’
Under state law an employer is not allowed to fire personnel for doing something that is not illegal, like smoking, if it takes place off the premises during non-work hours.
So in theory smoking on your own time should not be cause for dismissal.
But they are allowed to restrict the use of products, like tobacco, if they form a genuine occupation-related hazard.
Chuck Samuelson of the American Civil Liberties Union told the news channel: ‘Basically your rights as a a smoker end where other people’s noses begin.
‘In fact you can make the argument that your rights as a smoker end when other people breathe in the air that comes off of you.’
Park Nicollet refused to comment.
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