Healthcare costs aside, Illinois businesses may be paying dearly for bad employee habits.
Illinois ranks among the worst states in the nation for binge drinking (47th) and smoking (38th), according to the July 5th issue of Crain’s Chicago Business.
When you take a closer look at the data, which comes from the United Health Foundation’s “America’s Health [...]
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “tobacco use could kill one billion people during this century.”
That’s more than three times the number of people living in the U.S. today.
It’s an ugly statistic. And a costly one for businesses. Employees that smoke are damaging nearly every part of their bodies.
How are smokers driving up your [...]
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Cigarette companies make a significant profit from the sale of products that harm consumers and escalate health care costs. Unfortunately, the way the new “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” is crafted, cigarette manufacturers will not have to remove any of the toxic ingredients that are currently in cigarettes. There will nothing safer about a cigarette.
We know for a fact that the cost of indirect medical expenditures from smoking exceeds $92 billion a year in this country. We also have data indicating that smokers cost businesses productivity because smokers are simply not as efficient in any workforce as non-smokers. So when new technologies like the sexy “e-cig,” a sleek electronic [...]
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