Further, as described in other sections of this web site, there are many legal liability issues for employers which are directly related to smoking in the workplace. The following are links to articles which discuss these issues. Further, the study authors suggest that these PAFs may be underestimates. These findings provide strong evidence of the value of having workers who are not smokers and of encouraging current smokers to quit by having no smoking policies and providing easy access to nicotine addiction treatment resources. Click above for full study.
Smokers call in sick about two more days a year than non-smokers.
On average, they cost company drug plans twice as much as non-smokers. It costs employers money to create ventilated designated smoking areas for them. But the biggest drain on the bottom line comes from those little cigarette breaks. At the rate of 30 minutes a day, the average smoking employee racks up a whopping 18 days a year in time-outs for smokes. The Conference Board suggests they can improve their bottom line by offering employees a smoking cessation program.