Electronic Cigarettes Can Save Businesses About $7,500 Per Employee Who Smokes
Carl Davidson

If you own a business, you may be surprised at how much lost productivity due to smoking is costing your company. Most companies do not allow smoking in the building, so employees are forced to go outside in the freezing cold and the broiling sun if they wish to smoke. That means on average six breaks per day at an average of 10 minutes for smoking or one full hour per day lost due to smoking. This costs about $7,500 per year per employee who smokes per year!

Some companies do not allow smoking indoors or outside but this policy has costs as well. Productivity has been shown to be lower when smokers are stressed by lack of nicotine. IIt has the same effect the same as banning coffee from a worker who needs a coffee to get going in the morning. It may make it harder to recruit great staff members too.

Now, there is a solution.

Electronic cigarettes deliver nicotine to smokers in a liquid mist that has no smell and they produce no second hand smoke. There are no fire hazards, no burns on furniture with electronic cigarettes. With these electronic cigarettes, there is no need for cigarette breaks. Your employee can smoke where they work without disturbing fellow workers or taking breaks. This saves that average $7,500.00 per year per smoking employee without cutting productivity due to stress.

Best of all, electronic cigarettes cost about half as much as old tobacco filled cigarettes. Many companies give their employees who smoke a starter kit that costs about $60.00 to introduce them to electronic cigarettes and then stops the practice of sending them outside for those long and unproductive breaks throughout the day.

Electronic cigarettes may be the answer for higher morale, more productivity and lower costs.