The Boston Globe   Firefighter loses appeal of dismissal on
smoking  WEYMOUTH — The state Civil Service Commission has
upheld the firing of a Weymouth firefighter who was caught
smoking.  In a ruling released Thursday, the commission said
Weymouth had cause to fire Kenneth Morehouse in January 2012
after he was caught violating a state law that bars police and
firefighters from smoking on or off the job. The ban has been in
place since 1988.  Morehouse, who had been with the department
since 2003, argued he was exempt from the ban because he began
working as a firefighter in Boxborough in 1986, before the law
went into effect.  The Patriot Ledger reported that Commissioner
Cynthia Ittleman said the ban did apply to Morehouse because he
was appointed to the Weymouth job after the ban took effect.