Smokers Cost Employers Thousands More Than Nonsmokers

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52. They sure do in hospitals

The smokers were always running off the floor for smoke breaks, leaving other already overworked staff members to watch their patients for the 10 minutes or so it took for them to suck as much nicotine into their lungs as possible, hoping no one coded while they were off the floor because they could get terminated for a poor outcome if one did.

An experiment done years ago did cognitive testing on non smokers, satisfied smokers, and deprived smokers. What they found surprised them. Nonsmokers did best, which everyone expected. Deprived smokers did poorly, which everyone expected. What they hadn't expected was that satisfied smokers did almost as poorly as the Jonesing smokers.

So yes, while some people might look like smoking tornadoes at work, their performance is impaired compared to what it could be if they didn't smoke.