Smoke ScreeningSome employees have to take workplace smoking policies home with them.

Eric A. Nieves doesn't understand what all the fuss isabout. "Thousands of companies have implemented this,"says the director of human resources for the city of St. Cloud,Florida. In March, the city became one of a handful of Floridacities that are following the example of North Miami, which stoppedhiring tobacco users in 1990 and won the ensuing discriminationcase in the Florida Supreme Court in 1995.

The furor in media and workers' rights circles is fueled byhow far St. Cloud will go to ensure the rules are enforced. NorthMiami never asked applicants to sign affidavits. Nor does itmedically test them once they're hired. Though St. Clouddoesn't plan to regularly test anybody, it's still anoption for employees whose cheating becomes a problem.