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• Position: Stateline

A Massachusetts man has become the first firefighter to be fired under a state law that prohibits firefighters and police officers from smoking. The no-smoking law calls for the dismissal of any firefighter or police officer hired after Jan. 1, 1988, who is caught smoking tobacco products on or off duty. It was enacted under a pension reform measure that presumes that heart ailments for police and firefighters are job-related disabilities, which qualify the workers for...