although it is a good idea to offer employees an incentiive to stop smoking, this was carried out to an extreme. i think that the firing was an infringement to their rights.

as an off and on smoker, myself, i have chosen many times to quit and there are personal incentives to do so, but if i was given an ultimatum to quit, i would continue, just to thumb my nose at those who thought that they needed to tell me what to do with my freetime.