Case Study/Profile | September 2019 Highlight how three states have developed cost-sharing partnerships with Medicaid
economy $170 billion per year in direct medical costs (AJPM, 2014) Smoking is linked to a 28% increased risk of loss of productivity (Huffpost, 2012) Prevalence of Tobacco Use 19.6% of workers are tobacco users (CDC, 2011) A third of tobacco users earn less than $20,000 a year and do not have a high school diploma (CDC, 2015) 42% of unemployed adults and almost three-quarters of homeless adults use tobacco (Truthinitiative, 2016) Smoking rates among blue-collar workers have been consistently higher than white-collar workers (CDC, 2015) Protecting Non-smoking Employees One in 10 workers reported being exposed to secondhand smoke even with no-smoking laws in place (PubMed, 2014) Most workers (94.3%) believe that the employer should do everything to protect the non-smokers from secondhand smoke (PubMed, 2009) Workplace secondhand smoke is more common among men and is most widespread among blue-collar workers and industries such as mining and construction PubMed, 2014) Over 81% of smokers agree that they should get additional paid smoke breaks, while only 1 in 4 smokers (25.2%) agree that it is fair (Theladders, 2018) As stated previously, smokers spend six days in a year on smoke breaks
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"If anything it will make it harder for Utah to come out of the current recession." The Utah Department of Health says that nearly 1,150 Utahns die every year because they smoke
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