Each Smoker Costs Their Employer $5,800 A Year

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Here's the full breakdown of costs:

- Smoke breaks: $3,077
- Extra health car costs for self-insured employers: $2,056
- Excess absenteeism $517
- Reduced productivity as a result of nicotine addiction: $462

The morbid "benefit" from employing a smoker is that they die earlier and therefore are owed less in retirement, thereby offsetting some of the firm's overall costs — but only by $296.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/smokers-cost-companies-5800-a-year-2014-2