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As an employer, you can tremendously affect the health and well-being of your employees. A healthy workforce increases your bottom line and positively impacts employee morale. Below are links to resources where you can get additional information to improve the health of your employees and ultimately, your business.
This toolkit provides detailed information on how to make your worksite and campus tobacco-free and how to help employees quit using tobacco. Examples from Nebraska businesses are included.
While this resource focuses on making your business smoke-free (and
Nebraska's Clean Indoor Air Act already requires most businesses in the state to be smoke-free), it contains useful info on how to make your business smoke- or tobacco-free.
Prepared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This Smart Business article discusses how tobacco use impacts employers' costs as well as why employers should care if employees smoke.
This Tobacco Control article found that workplace productivity increased and absenteeism decreased among former smokers when compared to current smokers.
More Employers Shun Tobacco UsersThis
Forbes article discusses the importance of encouraging employees to quit smoking to improve their overall health, as well as the methods some employers take to incentivize employees to quit.