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BBC news: smokers take over 30 minutes in smoking breaks per day: Benenden Healthcare Society estimates that smokers take 3.2 breaks per day for 9.5 minutes each break – just over 30 minutes a day.
UK Statistics on Smoking
From the Office for National Statistics. Lader D and Meltzer H - Smoking related behaviour and attitudes 2001.
Smoke-free workplaces are good for business
Business Costs In Smoke-Filled Environments - a report by the ANR
NICE costing template:
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's detailed costing template
Scottish study on costs of employees in workforce
Funded by the Scottish Health Education Board
Summary of management attitudes to smokers
73% would hire non-smoker over a smoker - but only 44% thought they had a duty to help
Seeking Savings, Employers Help Smokers Quit
New York Times article about how employers are increasingly funding corporate smoking cessation with programs in place at many leading companies
2006 Research paper by 2Europe a report on the impact of smoking on your business.
NICE guidance for workplace smoke-free policies :
Give quit smoking help at work, says NICE
Employers Guide to Smoking Cessation
In depth white paper for employers from PACT - an American organisation promoting smoking cessation
BBC: Hidden costs of smoking
Smokers spend £676 a year on their habit, before the cost of cigarettes is even taken into account, a study says.
Buying cleaning products, life insurance and tailored products such as toothpaste help to bump up the hidden costs, the NHS Smoking Help line said. The research said an average 20-a-day smoker can expect to shell out £2,500 a year in total.
BBC: Each cigarette cuts life by 11 minutes
BBC: Q & A on Smoking Ban
BBC: World-wide movement to ban smoking