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"Job Performance Can Go Up in Smoke!" A new must read study.

Saving Lives and Reducing Costs for Employers and Employees!

Smoking is a costly and deadly habit that robs the employee and employers from productivity, resources and revenue! Please use our calculator on this page to see the amount of money smokers cost their employers just on cigarette breaks alone.

Why is Smoking so Costly to Employers, Employees and the Insurer?

Reason for Excess Cost	Cost Per Smoker	Source
Smoking Breaks (2005)	$5,625	SFSC
Mortality-Related Lost Productivity (1999)	$1,760	CDC
Excess Medical Expenditures (1999)	$1,623	CDC
Missed Work Days Due to Sickness (2001)	$341	JOEM
TOTAL EXCESS COST PER SMOKER PER YEAR	$9,349

Smoking is costly to employers both in terms of smoking-related medical expenses
and lost productivity.

Each smoker costs their employer $9,349 in lost productivity, excess medical expenditures and other related expenses. Although newer data is not yet available, these costs have and are rising faster and higher than all other cost of living increases.
Men who smoke incur $15,800 (in 2002 dollars) more in lifetime medical expenses and are absent from work 4 days more per year than men who do not smoke.
Women who smoke incur $17,500 (in 2002 dollars) more in lifetime medical expenses and are absent from work 2 days more each year than non-smoking women.

ESTIMATED COST SAVINGS TO EMPLOYER FOR IMPLEMENTING SFSC SMOKE-FREE WORKPLACE SEMINAR AND PROGRAM
Smoking is costly to employees as is to employers both in terms of smoking-related medical expenses and lost productivity. SFSC smoking cessation seminars, programs and plans help educate all employees on the adverse effects of smoking on their health and wealth while cutting costs and increasing employee productivity
Number of Employees (All included)	Estimated Number of Smokers (1 out of 4)	Estimated Annual Loss to Employer ($9,349 each smoker)	Estimated SFSC Seminar and Program Cost (Total)	Percentage of Savings to Employer
25	6	$ 56,094	$ 13,500	76%
50	13	$ 121,537	$ 15,250	87%
100	25	$ 233,725	$ 18,250	92%
250	63	$ 588,987	$ 42,120	93%
500	125	$ 1,168,625	$ 76,125	93%
1000	250	$ 2,337,250	$ 136,500	94%
2000	500	$ 4,674,500	$ 240,000	95%

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), employee tobacco use costs U.S. companies an estimated $167 billion each year in direct medical costs and lost productivity due to morbidity. Smoking costs businesses even more when absenteeism, lost productivity due to smoke breaks and workers compensation claims is included — with an overall tobacco-use prevalence of 22.5%, a company of 10,000 employees is incurring an estimated $12,333,200 per year in costs associated with smoking.

People who smoke are absent from work 2.9 days more than non-smokers
Lost production time is 75% higher for smokers vs. non-smokers
Annual workers compensation costs are up to 12 times higher for smokers than non-smokers

Studies have shown that tobacco treatment is more cost-effective than:

Mammography
Pap tests
Colon cancer screening
Pharmacological treatment of mild to moderate hypertension
Pharmacological treatment of hypercholesterolemia

Despite the lack of proven ROI (return on investment) and additional costs, these services are considered national standards of care and therefore covered by insurance. Tobacco cessation is the only service with proven ROI that is also a national standard of care according to organizations such as CDC, NIH, JCAHO, CMS, and NBGH.

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