No smokers please as Brussels refuses to stub out job prejudice / Europe’s bosses free to turn down smoking job-seekers

European employers are free to refuse a job to smokers, clinching tobacco users' status as the continent's last pariahs. The European Commission, which has presided over a vast array of anti-discrimination legislation in the past six years, says in a reply to a questions from MEP, Catherine Stihler, its laws did not cover tobacco users.