Smokers have less working time

According to a study published in the British journal Addiction, average smokers often have to take two or three working days a year compared to non-smokers and this absence leaves England alone 1 , £ 4 billion ($ 2.25 billion) in 2011.

The study analyzed 29 separate studies conducted between 1960 and 2011 in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the US and Japan, with a total of 71,000 public and private employees involved.

The researchers asked the staff about their current and previous smoking habits, using medical and work records surveys to see how many times they quit for an average of two years.

According to Jo Leonardi-Bee of the University of Nottingham in England and her associates, current smokers are more likely to have time not working than non-smokers 33% when they have to take a break on average 2, 7 days / year.

Researchers who calculate that people who still smoke are more likely to have a higher period of non-work than those who quit 19%, so encourage smokers to quit.

Leonardi-Bee and his colleagues wrote: 'Quitting smoking clearly reduces the risk of being absent from the workplace and the result is a lot of cost savings for employers.'

The £ 1.4 million that the British government lost last year because workers have to quit their jobs because smoking is just a cost for smoking in the workplace, not to mention the cost of time-consuming labor Interruption time for smoking and the cost of buying drugs as well as related fire risks.

In this analysis, smoking is related to the brief absence of workers.

Douglas Levy, a tobacco and public health researcher at Harvard Medical School in Boston and also a non-participant, said: 'Clearly, the most important message for your health Each individual is 'Let's quit smoking' but I think that this study not only shows that smoking not only affects individuals who smoke but also the economy. "

Levy's own research shows that children who live with smokers are more likely to have time off from school.

Passive smoking has a relationship with many health problems, from asthma to cardiovascular diseases, so workers who smoke may not be able to work because they have to stay home to take care of sick people .