Anti-Smoking gone mad...

I'm sure he felt pressured to sign the agreement...

A German company has sacked one of its employees for smoking at home after hiring a detective to catch him in the act.

Sandro Beier was dismissed from his £19,000-a-year job with a Berlin printing company after being photographed smoking in his back garden.

The company, Laserline, which runs a rigorous health and fitness programme for its 100 staff, said Mr Beier, 42, had "defrauded" it by lying about his smoking habits.

It claimed that Mr Beier had signed an agreement, renewable every month, in which he stated that he did not smoke. In return he received a monthly bonus of £68.

"Tip-offs from his fellow workers led us to believe Mr Beier was not sticking to the rules, so we sent a detective to follow him to find out the truth," said Babett Deuse, an operations and risk management supervisor at Laserline.

Tip-off from workers, a private detective....just because someone is smoking. I guess if he would have smoked a joint, that would have been ok.