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Workplace smoking policies 1: content and motives

Summary

In the first part of our survey of workplace smoking policies, we find that:

  • there are several reasons why employers chose to introduce smoking policies. Among our sample, the most frequently mentioned are, in order of popularity, the desire to protect employee health; the need to improve workplace safety; and a concern for the well-being of non-employees.