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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 is loss [...]

Marijuana (THC)

Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. A dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, it usually is smoked as a cigarette (joint, nail), or in a pipe (bong). It also is smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]