Even if the World Health Organization has published studies that state that smoking cigarettes kills up to 5 million people a year, a lot of people still continue to smoke tobacco and don’t even think of quitting. In response to the rising health expenses and productivity losses incurred because of smoking in the workplace, several [...]
The quintessential Marlboro Man may have made smoking cool and hip in the 1950s but these days, cigarette smoking is on the decline because of studies that show the different negative effects cigarettes and tobacco have on your health. Those who have stopped this nasty habit can tell you that there is no easy way [...]
Although smoking is the leading cause of lung and oral cancer worldwide, there is still not enough funding, a study grant or opportunities for students, doctors and researchers to find out more about nicotine and tobacco smoking as well as its effects on health. There are, however, a number of study grants and even grant [...]
A great many quit smoking campaigns have been initiated in the media. Although the subject is a serious one, the ads have attracted interest and fascination from every age group. In general, the scariest ads seems to be the ones with the fewest words, although there are certainly facts aplenty to back up the [...]
On every pack of cigarettes that you will see in a store or lay your hands on, you will always find this label stuck on it that says something like this: “Government warning: Smoking has serious side effects that can kill you.”
All of us know that the long-term smoking of tobacco and such can lead [...]
Let’s not talk about the advantages and disadvantages of smoking. It’s something that is common enough knowledge. Its not that smokers don’t know or are unaware of the facts that smoking is bad for them, it’s just that they are unable to care.
Here are six interesting fact about smokers vs. non-smokers that might make the [...]
Eliminating smoking at the workplace is one of the better ways in which you can control smoking. At least there would a particular number of hours in a day when a smoker wont smoke. Who knows? This might just lead to a lifestyle change in some of the employees who smoke and they might quit [...]
California has workplace smoking restrictions, like many other States in America. The restrictions are strictly enforced as there are a whole lot of fines, that an employer must pay up, if he/she is seen violating these workplace smoking restrictions. Here are a few things that you must know about the smoking restrictions in place in [...]
Smoking is injurious to one’s health. Even a packet of cigarettes tells you so, however, a large part of the World population smokes and they smoke a lot and that too everywhere. There are quite a number of smokers who don’t deem a workplace untouchable with reference to smoking. They smoke at the workplace. However, [...]
Why are more and more people looking to eliminate smoking from the workplace? The reason is very simple. It saves their company or business quite a bit of money. Smoking at the workplace does cost a company a lot of money.
Loss of Productivity
One of the biggest costs incurred as an outcome of smoking is loss [...]
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