Lighting up is not only costing lives, it's literally costing Americans — and employers — big time.
Workers who smoke cost the economy an estimated $278 billion annually in lost productivity due to extra health care costs and absenteeism.
That figure comes from Gallup and is based on an analysis of the cost of extra missed workdays because of poor health, partial absenteeism due to smoke breaks, and additional health care costs compared with workers who don't smoke.
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