Smoking is expensive for smokers and for their employers.
Only a third, however, insist on smoke-free buildings. The tobacco experts who surveyed Scottish workplaces estimate that smoking still causes 450m worth of lost productivity each year in Scotland alone. One solution is for employers to help employees quit. Unsurprisingly, four fifths of the trainees surveyed said they thought that eponyms should be abandoned as a way of describing fractures. There is already some evidence that thin women have a higher than average risk of hip fracture in later life.