Jump to full article: Houma (LA) Courier, 2009-11-04
Author: Chrishelle Harris Stipe Lung Association
Intro: Offering resources to help employees quit smoking can improve wellness, increase corporate moral and reduce health-care costs to employers.
Employees who smoke will cost businesses in direct health-care costs including more visits to health-care facilities, more hospital admissions and higher average insurance premiums. The indirect health-care costs amount to a loss in productivity in increased absenteeism.
Some things to think about during Lung Cancer Awareness and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness month.
Fact: Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death.
Fact: Tobacco-related diseases kill 438,000 Americans annually. . . .
n Louisiana Tobacco Quitline at (800) QUIT NOW.
n Quit With Us, La at www.QuitWithUsLA.org.
The LSU Tobacco Control Initiative also offers programs at Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma, 873-2499; Assumption Community Hospital, 369-3600; and Terrebonne General Medical Center, 876-7577.
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