Employees Pressured to Be Quitters
December 12, 2007
admin wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
– Brian Frank
To most smokers, the thought of quitting is one of the most prevalent things on their mind. All smokers know they should quit. But the pressures to do something about it soon are getting more and more difficult to ignore. It’s not just the fear of health risks anymore. Pressures to quit smoking are everywhere.
Most notably, smoking has now been banned in 31 states, including Illinois, where a new bill will take effect on January 1st. Violators of the ban will be slapped with hefty fines of $100 to $250 per instance. Smokers will literally be left out in the cold as they will be prohibited from lighting up within 15 feet of entrances or windows of restaurants, workplaces, public buildings, and bars. Yep – even bars! Now that’s pressure!
430,000 Americans die every year from smoking-related diseases. That’s equivalent to about 144 times the amount of people [...]
Read the rest of this great post here
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