Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Smoking is responsible for one in every five American deaths. Tobacco causes more deaths than AIDS, alcohol abuse, automobile accidents, illegal drugs, fires, homicide, and suicide combined. Companies around the United States are becoming aware of how negatively smoking employees affect their companies’ bottom line.The growing trend to become more health conscious has hit corporate America. The cost of an employee who smokes is significant to an employer.

Action on Smoking and Health, known as ASH, say that smokers’ medical costs are $3,000 a year higher than nonsmokers’ and that lost productivity due to illness and smoking breaks during the day raises the added cost of employing smokers to about $5,000 a year per smoker.Employers endure increased health care costs associated from their employees’ smoking addictions.

I work with to overcome this addictive negative behavior, I’ll do whatever I can to help them. Slogan also states, “I believe in positive reinforcement and strongly supporting my dedicated team of employees.”Companies benefit in many ways by assisting their employees in ending their nicotine addictions. Corporations will experience a significant decrease in the costs of their health and life insurance policies for their smoking employees. Employers spend almost double on their health care benefits for smoking employees due to the increased risks for disease and illness.

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