Estimating the cost of a smoking employee Tobacco Control Aug 2013
$3,077: 5 smoking breaks per day vs 3 breaks
$2,056: excess health care expenses.
$683: increased absenteeism
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Smokers absent 2.5 days more per year
Smoker costs
See also VitaminDWiki
- Smoking while pregnant: are the problems due to low vitamin D – July 2013
- Probability of T2 diabetes increased almost 3X with smoking and low vitamin D – Oct 2010
- Opportunity: Enhance Workplace Wellness programs with Vitamin D
- some companies are giving employees who quite smoking a reward of >$500
Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies contains the following
Two pathways are often proposed for how smoking decreases vitamin D:
1) Smoking decreases Calcium. and Vitamin D is used up in replacing the Calcium
2) Smoking injures the body, and vitamin D is used up in repairing the body
It appears that taking Vitamin D while smoking will:
1) Decrease the incidence of the many health problems associated with smoking - even lung cancer
2) Decrease the desire to smoke (perhaps take fewer smoking breaks?)
3) Increase breathing capacity
Opinion: If you must smoke, have recently smoked, or are getting 2nd hand smoke:
take Vitamin D and perhaps Omega-3
They will extinguish much of the inflammation caused by inhaling tobacco smoke.
Vitamin D should also help people quit smoking See bottom of page Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies
1) Reduces weight gain associated with quitting smoking
2) Reduces depression associated with quitting smoking
See also web
- Japanese company gives non smokers 6 days of vacation annually 2017
- Compensates for their not taking smoking breaks
- “We don’t give punishment for smoking,” Matsushima said. “Instead, we offer a benefit for not smoking.”
See also web - obesity
- Obesity Now Costs Americans More In HealthCare Spending Than Smoking Forbes April 2013
$1,152 a year in medical spending, +Obese women $3,613 a year,$3,271 compared with $512 for the non-obese.” - The Obesity Prevention Source: Paying the Price for Those Extra Pounds Harvard School of Public health. 2012?