A smoker costs a company 5816 dollars every year – Aug 2013

Estimating the cost of a smoking employee Tobacco Control Aug 2013

$3,077: 5 smoking breaks per day vs 3 breaks
$2,056: excess health care expenses.
$683: increased absenteeism

Details from NY Times article

 Download the PDF from ResearchGate via Vitamin D Life
Smokers absent 2.5 days more per year

Smoker costs

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See also Vitamin D Life

• Smoking while pregnant: are the problems due to low vitamin D – July 2013
• Probability of T2 diabetes increased almost 3X with smoking and low vitamin D – Oct 2010
• Opportunity: Enhance Workplace Wellness programs with Vitamin D
  • some companies are giving employees who quite smoking a reward of >$500

Smoking reduces vitamin D contains the following

Two pathways are often proposed for how smoking decreases vitamin D:
   1) Smoking decreases Calcium. and Vitamin D is used up in replacing the Calcium
   2) Smoking injures the body, and vitamin D is used up in repairing the body
It appears that taking Vitamin D while smoking will:
   1) Decrease the incidence of the many health problems associated with smoking - even lung cancer
   2) Decrease the desire to smoke (perhaps take fewer smoking breaks?)
   3) Increase breathing capacity
Opinion: If unable to stop smoking,
  or are a previous smoker,
     or are getting 2nd hand smoke,
         increase Vitamin D and perhaps Omega-3 (which decreases depression, inflammation)
Vitamin D should also help people quit smoking   See bottom of page Smoking reduces vitamin D
   1) Reduces weight gain associated with quitting smoking
   2) Reduces depression associated with quitting smoking

See also web

• Japanese company gives non smokers 6 days of vacation annually 2017
  • Compensates for their not taking smoking breaks
  • “We don’t give punishment for smoking,” Matsushima said. “Instead, we offer a benefit for not smoking.”

See also web - obesity

• Obesity Now Costs Americans More In HealthCare Spending Than Smoking Forbes April 2013
  $1,152 a year in medical spending, +Obese women $3,613 a year,$3,271 compared with $512 for the non-obese.”
• The Obesity Prevention Source: Paying the Price for Those Extra Pounds Harvard School of Public health. 2012?