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Study: Companies Pay Almost $6,000 Extra Per Year for Each Employee Who Smokes
By drawing on previous research on the costs of absenteeism, lost productivity, smoke breaks and health care costs, the researchers developed an estimate that each employee who smokes costs an employer an average of $5,816 annually above the cost of a pe
Jun 3, 2013
Ohio State University
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Jun 4, 2013 00:05
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Companies pay almost $6,000 extra per year for each employee who smokes
By drawing on previous research on the costs of absenteeism, lost productivity, smoke breaks and health care costs, the researchers developed an estimate that each employee who smokes costs an employer an average of $5,816 annually above the cost of a pe
Jun 3, 2013
ScienceDaily
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Jun 4, 2013 00:03
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[Asia, Pakistan] New government should discourage growing tobacco usage: PEW
In his Sunday statement, President PEW Dr Murtaza Mughal, has expressed concerns that despite all half-hearted efforts including the Anti-Smoking Ordinance, tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke continues to grow and remains as the leading preven
Jun 3, 2013
ONLINE International News Network (pk)
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Jun 3, 2013 23:59
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Smoking employees cost $6,000 a year more, study finds
Smokers cost their employers nearly $6,000 a year more than staff who don’t smoke, researchers said on Monday in what they say is the first comprehensive look at the issue. And in what some might see as a dark twist, they’ve taken into account any saving
Jun 3, 2013
NBC News
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Jun 3, 2013 23:52
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[New Jersey] LETTER: New Revel smoking policy hurts workers, gamblers
it's a good time for all who are concerned about their lung health to contact their elected officials and voice their support for legislation (A343/S1795), which would eliminate the smoking ban exemption for casinos.
Jun 3, 2013
The Press of Atlantic City
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Jun 3, 2013 23:50
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Report cites tobacco spending in Maine politics
A report by a Maine citizens' group says tobacco interests have far outspent nonprofits and groups working against tobacco use in elections from 2000 through 2012. The report released Monday by Maine Citizens for Clean Elections cites figures from the
Jun 3, 2013
AP - Associated Press
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Jun 3, 2013 23:33
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[District of Columbia] Marge Baker: Five Things Republicans Don't Want You to Know About the D.C. Circuit
The Associated Press is reporting that tomorrow President Obama will nominate three experienced and highly regarded people -Cornelia Pillard, Patricia Ann Millet and Robert Leon Wilkins-- to the influential Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Jun 3, 2013
Huffington Post (blog)
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Jun 3, 2013 19:20
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[Russia] Do National Smoking Bans Actually Work?
But will it actually work? Here’s how similar efforts have played out in other developed nations.
Jun 3, 2013
TIME Magazine
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Jun 3, 2013 19:05
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Frank R. Lautenberg, 5-Term Senator From New Jersey, Dies at 89
In 1989, he led a successful fight to ban smoking on all commercial airline flights. Mr. Lautenberg, once a two-pack-a-day smoker, told the Senate: “With this legislation, nonsmokers, including children and infants, will be free from secondhand smoke. Wor
Jun 3, 2013
New York Times
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Jun 3, 2013 13:20
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World figures and their smoking stories
The subject of smoking is close to the heart of a number of high-profile global figures, so let's take a closer look at how smoking affects the lives of the great and the good. Obama: quitting smoking is harder than running for presidency
Jun 3, 2013
China Internet Information Center (cn)
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Jun 3, 2013 13:14