Asked why she didn't simply ban cigarettes, the mayor said that would be an "infringement of civil liberties, and besides, we use cigarette-tax money to run the schools and to fund food stamps for smokers." Food stamps have been provided since 2016, when all American cigarette smokers were fired under the "We Will Make You Healthy or Kill You Act." Ten years earlier, Westgate Resorts, the largest private employer in central Florida, fired employees who smoked. "When I found out it was legal to discriminate against smokers, I put the policy in place," Westgate president and CEO David Siegel said. Other employers followed suit, saying that firing smokers would reduce their health-care costs... [Read more]