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Side Effects of Smoking You May Not Know About

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 [...]

Smoker vs. Non-Smoker Worker – 6 Interesting Facts to Know

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 [...]

Eliminating Smoking in the Workplace – How do you Start?

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 [...]

11 Things to Know About California Workplace Smoking Restrictions

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 [...]

9 Facts How Non-Smoking Workplace Improves Lives and Wallets

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, [...]

How Smoking in the Workplace Costs Your Company Money

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 [...]

Second Hand Smoking Tests: How do they work?

Secondhand smoke or passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a combination of the smoke produced from burning cigarettes and the smoke exhaled by the smoker, from which over 4,000 different chemicals have been identified & around 50 of these chemicals are known carcinogens, a combinatorial effect of which poses a myriad of health [...]

How to Quit Smoking

Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes an addiction to smoking. Nicotine is an addictive compound, just like heroin and cocaine.Most people begin smoking as teens, usually because of curiosity and peer pressure. People with friends and/or parents who smoke are more likely to take up smoking than those who don’t. The tobacco industry’s ads and other [...]

Second Hand Smoking: Medical or Physiological Effects

Secondhand smoke is a combination of the smoke produced from a burning cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. Second-hand smoke is also known as passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Mostly the term second-hand smoke is used as opposed to ETS because the latter infers a relationship between tobacco smoke and the [...]

Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Children

Smoking causes eighty percent of lung cancer around the world. One in 5 deaths in the U.S results from the use of tobacco & each year, smoking claims 400,000 lives in the U.S. alone. In 1999, 65% of all secondary students reported having used some type of tobacco product during their lifetime. There was a [...]