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Tobacco cessation

Are you keeping that New Year’s resolution?

article from: blueadvantage.ca

Whether your employees made New Year’s resolutions or not, you’ll find some great tips in this edition of the Blue Advantage® newsletter to help them maintain goals of quitting smoking, enjoying healthier eating and starting an exercising regime.

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Smokers take a high toll on the bottom line of their employers

article from: conferenceboard.ca

Smokers take a toll on the bottom line of their employers, and workplaces can cut the number of smokers sharply with smoking cessation programs. The Conference Board of Canada estimates that on average, each smoker cost his or her employer an estimated $4,256 in 2012—more than $3,800 in lost productivity due to unsanctioned smoking breaks and more than $400 in lost productivity due to absenteeism. This amount has risen by more than 25 per cent since the Conference Board's 2005 estimate of the per-smoker cost to employers.

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Land acknowledgement

We begin by acknowledging that we are on traditional lands, referred to as Treaty 6, Treaty 7 and Treaty 8 territory, and all the people here are beneficiaries of these peace and friendship treaties.

This territory is the home for many Indigenous Peoples, including the Blackfoot, Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Ojibwe, Stoney Nakota Sioux, and Tsuut’ina peoples, and the Métis Nation of Alberta and the Métis Settlements.

We respect the Treaties that were made on these territories, we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and we dedicate ourselves to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.

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