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Few Employers Offer Smoking Cessation Programs To Employees - 02-01-2007, 03:21 AM

Only 4% of U.S. employers offer programs to help employees quit smoking, despite higher health care costs for employees who smoke and smoking breaks that can cost employers as many as nine weeks of lost productivity annually, according to a survey released on Tuesday by the National Business Group on Health, AP/Houston Chronicle reports. [click link for full article]

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