Stop
Grinding Up Your Money
The CDC
estimates each employee that smokes costs your company $3,391
per year -- including $1,760 in lost productivity and $1,623
in excess medical expenses (4).
Wisconsin businesses lose $1.4 billion in worker productivity
each year due to sickness and premature death caused by smoking.
In addition, the average annual healthcare costs related to
smoking in Wisconsin is $1.5 billion. All told, smoking costs
Wisconsin businesses almost $3 billion a year (5).
Smoking
is the leading cause of preventable death each year in the United
States, claiming more than 440,000 lives each year, including
more than 7,000 in Wisconsin (6).
That’s more than the combined death rates for AIDS, drugs,
alcohol, homicide, suicide and motor vehicle accidents, according
to the CDC. Research shows the cost of employee turnover is
quite high. To calculate your employee turnover expenses, click
here.
