Financial Benefits for Tobacco-Free Workplaces
• Establishing smoke-free workplaces is the simplest and most cost effective way to improve worker and business health.
• Cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke cost $92 billion in productivity losses annually, according to the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) puts a $3,391 price tag on each employee who smokes: $1,760 in lost productivity and $1,623 in excess medical expenditures.
• The American Cancer Society reports that employees who smoke have an average insured payment for health care of $1,145, while nonsmoking employees average $762.
• What tobacco costs South Dakota:
• Total Annual Medical Costs to South Dakota: $274 million.
• Annual Medicaid Medical Cost: $58 million.
• Total State Revenue from Tobacco Excise Taxes and Settlement: $48.5 million.
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