Smokers Cost Employers $5,816 A Year.
A smoker costs a private employer in the United States an extra $5,816 per year compared with a nonsmoker, according to an analysis of data collected from earlier studies on the costs of smoking.
Researchers at The Ohio State University estimated that the largest cost, at $3,077 annually, came from taking smoking breaks. Smokers took, on average, about five breaks a day, compared with the three breaks typically sanctioned for most workers.
The second largest cost, at $2,056, was related to excess health care expenses. Smokers typically have more health problems than nonsmokers, including heart and lung disease and various cancers.
The remaining costs came from increased absenteeism — the researchers found that smokers miss about two-and-a-half extra workdays each year — and lost productivity at work, perhaps because of nicotine’s withdrawal effects. The findings appeared online in June in the journal Tobacco Control.
Read more: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/the-cost-of-a-smoker-5816
Decade after decade, this study is repeated, and comes out the same.
As a manager of employees, I can confirm that smokers are less productive, are absent from work more often, and drive up the health insurance rates for all employees. Just another reason I support universal healthcare.
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People that have sex (for any reason other than breeding) are bad, and women that enjoy it are really bad.
And anyone that doesn't think wasting your one and only life in endless toil for the benefit of someone else is the very worst, godless communist, bastard hippie.
If you're brazen enough to walk around openly in possession of a vagina, you get whatever we decide you've got coming, you hussy.
Employees don't get 'extra' breaks because they smoke
By the time smokers develop heart and lung related diseases they're usually retired
Do they produce any 'studies' on alcohol consuming employees?
