Pro-Smoking Hoaxer Dupes Media

Via Weird News: After telling the media last week that he fired three non-smoking employees for being "troublemakers," the manager of a German company has admitted the whole thing was a hoax, Buck Wolf informs us. "He said he's a chain-smoker himself and said he was tired of smokers being hassled so much," Hamburger Morgenpost reporter Stephanie Lamprecht wrote in a correction published Monday. Says Wolf: "Where there's smoke, there's a liar." Read more...

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