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Cleveland Clinic bans hiring of smokers, will add tobacco to drug testing
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Cleveland Clinic bans hiring of smokers


CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Cleveland Clinic, which has targeted fatty foods at its lunch counters and scooted smokers away from its buildings and sidewalks, now will ban the hiring of anyone who smokes.

The move is part of a healthy work force initiative that included the appointment Thursday of Dr. Michael Roizen, author of a series of best-selling books on making healthy lifestyles, as the first chief wellness officer of the research hospital.

Beginning Sept. 1, Ohio's second-biggest employer with 36,300 employees will no longer hire smokers. The policy will not affect current employees, who can get free stop-smoking help from the clinic. Prospective employees will be tested for tobacco use along with drugs.

The ban is "essentially a challenge to every other major health-care organization that we want them to focus on wellness as well as illness too," Roizen said Wednesday.

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