At the University of Nagasaki, smokers have a hard time in the future: professors and teachers should only be allowed to teach there if they commit themselves to giving up cigarettes. "We think that smokers should not work in education," said a spokesman for Nagasaki University.
However, there is a way out for applicants: anyone who promises to give up smoking after being hired can still hope for a job. From August, smoking will be banned throughout the campus. Those who can not stop themselves should be treated in a clinic.
The university does not see it as a violation of anti-discrimination laws. The administration had legal advice.
Japan is considered a smoker's paradise. In almost all restaurants and bars of the island state may be smoke. With a view to the Summer Olympics 2020, a law is planned that smoking should be significantly reduced. It also provides exceptions for small restaurants.
The city of Tokyo, on the other hand, passed strict smoking laws last year. Since then, smoking is banned in all educational institutions, hospitals and restaurants in the Japanese capital.