SMOKE FREE WORKPLACE

Smoke Free Workplace

Smoke Free Workplace

Introduction

Awareness of the harmful effects of cigarette smoking has increased since the sixties, when the chief surgeon of the U.S. published a first report on this topic. Since then, the attitude to smoking became more and more negative. On cigarette packs become mandatory label warning that smoking is harmful to health. In some countries, banned cigarette advertising on television and in some public places have been created areas where smoking is not permitted, and in other places was banned smoking altogether. All the more widely disseminated public health messages, which describe the dangers associated with smoking, despite the best efforts of tobacco companies deny the existence of the problem. People who try to quit each year spend millions of dollars. Books, videos, group therapy, anti-smoking chewing gum, nicotine skin stickers, and even handheld computers - all of it has been used with varying success to help those who wanted to get rid of nicotine addiction. Increasing the fight against smoking has received additional support when it was confirmed the carcinogenic effect of "passive smoking" (Sasco, Secretan, et al, 2004).

This article will discuss the logical arguments in favor of non-smoking in the workplace and offer practical methods and approaches, taking into account that some calls are not enough. This would be done, by summarizing the studies of previous researches in this regard. However, one should not underestimate the terrible force of attraction of nicotine, as well as the difficulties experienced by people who decided to do away with nicotine dependence. It is hoped that in this paper a more realistic approach to solving this complex problem than the methods that were used in the past.

Discussion

Fight against Smoking at Work

Some employees of the organization often go on a smoke break, and sometimes even smoke in the offices. How to solve this problem? Is there a responsibility for smoking in the workplace? Can you motivate staff to lead a healthy lifestyle? Fight against smoking is not easy. The prohibition of smoking in the workplace - this is a serious problem for most employers: someone solves it with fines for smoking in the workplace, others, however, encourages non-smokers by paying an additional premium and some employers and does not recruit smoker's employees. Go to "extreme" action forcing employer's damage smoking in the workplace (Ellingsen, Fladseth, et al, 2006). You have to spend additional funds to:

Payment of sick leave (according to studies of risks from various addictions, people who smoked one or more packs of cigarettes a day for 18% more likely to request to pay for a newsletter, than non-smokers, smokers 25% more in need of outpatient treatment and 29% more likely than non-smokers, submit a request for payment of hospital).

Repair of equipment, that tobacco smoke causes significant harm.

Cleaning of the premises in which smoking employees (Ellingsen, Fladseth, et al, 2006).

The big downside of smoking is to reduce the productivity of labor: if you count a heavy smoker can spend on smoking breaks up half hours a ...