While the $3.1 billion in total costs to employers is alarming, whats even more disturbing is the actual number is likely far higher than estimated, as this study does not account for items such as higher health insurance premiums for employers who purchase private insurance, higher workers compensation costs for smokers, higher life insurance premiums for smoking employees, and the cost of secondhand smoke on non-smokers in workplaces where smoking is permitted, the report notes
Continuing high rates of smoking uptake more than 50 years after the publication of landmark reports by the US Surgeon General and Royal College of Physicians, which established the substantial harms caused by smoking, represents a massive failure of successive governments
If you aren't old enough to remember the Jolie-Thornton tabloid fireball of 2000 - the vials of each other's blood they were rumored to wear around their necks, the horny pawing on the red carpet - then, my condolences
26, 2021, [2] Office of Management and Budget, Historical Tables, Table 2.1Receipts by Source: 19342025, accessed Jan
