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The statewide ban on indoor smoking doesn't go far enough for some large employers. For employee health, for the bottom line or just to set a good example, they're saying, 'No butts.'
Jump to full article: New Mexico Business Weekly, 2008-04-21
Author: Thomas Munro NMBW Staff
Intro: At the same time as the state of New Mexico moved to embrace a nearly universal indoor workplace smoking ban last summer, a few large employers were already working on going farther.
Campus-wide smoking bans have now been instituted by several large employers, including Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Holy Cross Hospital in Taos and the city of Albuquerque. Nathan Bush, New Mexico government relations director for the American Cancer Society, said the idea was first pushed by hospitals and other health care facilities.
"Being in health care, they recognized the health and social and monetary costs of tobacco abuse," Bush said.
That was the experience at the Health Sciences Center
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