Jump to full article: Sunday Mail (QLD) (au), 2001-03-31
Author: STEELE TALLON
Intro: SMOKERS are spending up to four hours a day away from their desks on cigarette breaks.
A Queensland survey of 200 workers found the average smoking break was 5min 32sec.
But that blew out to 10 minutes when factoring in the time taken to leave and return to work stations.
With heavy smokers puffing as many as three cigarettes an hour, the amount of productive time sacrificed at work quickly added up.
The findings have angered employers.
The Queensland Chamber of Commerce and Industry said bosses were becoming "increasingly concerned " about dropping productivity among smokers.
"Some smokers are taking too many breaks," chamber commercial services general manager Peter Ellender said. . .
The survey was completed for the Brisbane producers of herbal quit-smoking product CigArrest.
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