Is this absurdity or what…?

I read in the newspaper, the other day, that a large segment of the companies hiring new employees is using whether or not the potential hires smoke (a nasty habit to this former smoker) as a part of the interview process and deeming ‘smokers’ as unqualified for the positions being filled.  So then, even knowing that the reasons for not hiring ‘smokers’ to positions that are being filled are plausibly sound ones (less health-risk employees, less time missed, not as much production lost from sneaky smoke breaks) for not hiring an individual that smokes, doesn’t that put that segment of companies, which have adopted said hiring guidelines, in direct opposition to another segment of American industry that supports Tobacco-growing and cigarette-manufacturing and other agricultural industries; the farmers, agriculture machinery production, marketing agencies and the federal and state agencies that govern and oversee that aspect of our country’s domestic production?  Wait, isn’t this one of the industries that is keeping the Insurance business in business?  You know, that business and industry that has raised the premium prices for healthcare coverage for people who have been slaves to the cigarette-craving that the tobacco manufacturers have chemically created with their production, since they began manufacturing them; and, who are having a difficult time finding a job, anyway.  Why don’t we just outlaw tobacco production and sales, subsidize the former tobacco growers while they transition to another, more useful and healthy, product and not use a legal but unhealthy habit as a weapon against folks trying to find a job?   So then, what do the people have to say?