For decades, It has been shown in countless studies the
damage produced by cigarette smoking. For instance, cigarettes increase stomach
inflammation, ulcers and gastritis. However, there is a study that shows
something that I am pretty sure you are not aware of. A report published by the
magazine “Addiciton” revealed that smokers miss work two to three days more per
year than non-smokers. Only in the UK this issue has cost nearly 400 million
pounds thousand, one thousand 700 million euros a year.
The data comes from a review of 29 independent studies
conducted between 1960 and 2011 in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, United
States and Japan, with a total of more than 71,000 public sector workers and
private. The authors of the report, members of the University of Nottingham
(UK), focused on the smoking habits of workers, and analyzed the frequency with
which these were absent in the last two years. Smokers were 33% more likely to
miss work than nonsmokers, and they missed an average of 2.7 working days per
year, as explained Jo Leonardi-Bee, author of the report. They also calculated
that current smokers were 19% more likely to miss work than former smokers, so
encourage them to leave the snuff may also cause "considerable cost
savings for workers."
In addition, the study has also shown that children
who live with smokers are also more likely to miss school. A passive smoking
has been associated with increased susceptibility to the development of various
diseases, from asthma to heart attacks, which makes workers must miss work more
often to stay home with their sick.
In my case, I stopped smoking three months ago and I
feel better now. It is hard but not impossible. In this video there are some smoking
effects. Are you aware of those effects? Do you think that smoking is related
with missing hours of work?
