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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Volusia County is taking over ambulance services and the anti-smoking policy of county employees could cost some ambulance drivers and paramedics their jobs.
Ambulance employees are currently allowed to smoke if they were hired before the anti-smoking policy took effect earlier this year, but now that those employees will become county workers, all of them will have to pass nicotine tests to keep their jobs.
The nicotine test only applies to uniformed workers, like law enforcement. Paramedics and ambulance drivers will be required to take a nicotine test starting on Oct. 1.