In Curbing Smoking,businesses Are Not Motivated Strictly by Civic Responsibility

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Multiple Choice

In curbing smoking,businesses are not motivated strictly by civic responsibility.Workplace smoking increases employer costs in all of the following ways except:

• A)smokers are absent from work 50 percent more often than nonsmokers.
• B)smokers have twice as many accidents.
• C)turnover by smokers is 20% higher than for nonsmokers.
• D)smoke-free firms often pay 25 percent to 35 percent less for health and fire insurance.

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