Got a call a few weeks back from a woman who works at a local business park that had just outlawed all smoking on the premesis. As in, not only could you not smoke in the building, you couldn’t smoke outside the building; you couldn’t smoke in the parking lot. Not even if you were seated in your own car.

Employees who smoked were furious, she said. This was taking the anti-smoking jihad too far. But maybe she should just be glad she doesn’t live in Florida:

Westgate Resorts, the largest private employer in Central Florida, has banned smoking and won’t budge from a policy of not hiring smokers and firing employees who do smoke.

“When I found out it was legal to discriminate against smokers, I put the policy in place,” Westgate president and CEO David Seigel said.

Seigel told Local 6 that the policy was prompted by the death of his close friend — a heavy smoker who died of cancer.

“If you are too stupid to understand that smoking is going to kill you, then we are going to tell you that if you want to work for our company, you will not smoke,” Seigel said.