Smoking and sick days: Study says there's a connection
Employees who smoke take more sick days and may be less productive than other workers, new study findings suggest.
In the study, which covered 300 full-time employees at an airline reservations office, smokers called in sick an average of four days over a three-month period, with former smokers calling in sick 2.4 times and people who had never smoked calling in sick 1.3 days over the same time period.