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Quitters Can Win, It Seems / Fed Researchers Find Ex-Smokers Earn Higher Wages Than Smokers and Non-Smokers
Jul 20, 2013
Yahoo! Finance
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Jul 20, 2013 14:07
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Study says you'll earn more if you start smoking, then quit
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta found that nonsmokers make only 95 percent of what former smokers do, and current smokers a dismal 80 percent. According to economist Melinda Pitts, "It takes a special person to quit an addictive behavior, and there is a h
Jul 20, 2013
msnNOW.com
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Jul 20, 2013 14:07
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[Canada] Smokers cost employers $3000 a year in breaks: study
A new study from Ohio State University shows another way that smoking has become a burden: through those little bits of time smokers use to light up. According to the June study, employing smokers will cost employers upward of $5,800 per smoker, per yea
Jul 15, 2013
Metro (ca)
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Jul 15, 2013 18:10
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[Canada] Smokers cost employers $3000 a year in breaks: study
A new study from Ohio State University shows another way that smoking has become a burden: through those little bits of time smokers use to light up. According to the June study, employing smokers will cost employers upward of $5,800 per smoker, per yea
Jul 15, 2013
Metro (ca)
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Jul 15, 2013 18:08
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[Florida] 2 Fla hospitals seeking smoke-free workers
If you want to work for Baptist Health Care and Sacred Heart Health System in Pensacola, you'll have to give up smoking. Beginning Jan. 1, the hospital will expand its smoking policy, which already prohibits the use of tobacco products by employees, pati
Jul 14, 2013
AP - Associated Press
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Jul 15, 2013 17:57
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[Florida] Baptist, Sacred Heart hospitals to stop hiring tobacco users Jan. 1
the new policy expands the scope of the ban, ensuring that newly hired employees of the hospital and hospital-owned clinics and other facilities don't use tobacco off the job, whether they're doctors, secretaries or janitors.
Jul 14, 2013
Pensacola (FL) News Journal
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Jul 14, 2013 10:46
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[Missouri] A Bad Smoke Break: Stringent Documentation of Work Rules Defends Against Unemployment Claims
One day, he disappeared during dinner service and was found 20 minutes later smoking and talking on his cell phone in the parking lot. He was fire ... the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the employer, it was a time-consuming and expensive und
Jul 13, 2013
National Law Review
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Jul 13, 2013 22:07
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ARCHIVE: Ethical Concerns in Tobacco Control Nonsmoker and “Nonnicotine” Hiring Policies: The Implications of Employment Restrictions for Tobacco Control.
However, these arguments are problematic: not only can hiring restrictions come into conflict with broader antismoking goals, but they also raise significant problems of their own.
Nov 1, 2012
American Journal of Public Health
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Jul 10, 2013 15:32
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[Australia] Fears for non-smoking workers
The state government has refused to address claims that staff exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke at James Packer's proposed casino at Barangaroo will be risking their health. Anti-smoking groups on Monday criticised the government's conditional appr
Jul 9, 2013
Sydney Morning Herald (au)
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Jul 9, 2013 05:34
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Hard Labor in Nepal's Brick Factories
’s not uncommon to see a 9-year-old unwinding with a glass of strong rice wine and a cigarette, shortly after setting down a load that weighs more than he does.
Jul 8, 2013
New York Times Blogs
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Jul 8, 2013 09:17