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Smoke-free workplaces resources:

  Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS): workplace policy
Answers questions on smoking restrictions in the workplace including legal obligations, ventilation, and steps workplaces can take to implement a smoking policy.
Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
 
  Beyond the smoke-free workplace
Discusses the costs to employers of productivity losses due to smoking by employees and reports on corporate smoking-cessation programs in Canada.
Source: Canadian Lung Association
 
  Smoking and the bottom line: the costs of smoking in the workplace
Reports on the costs of employing a worker who smokes compared to a non-smoking employee. Considers factors of increased absenteeism, decreased productivity, increased life insurance premiums, and smoking area costs.
Source: Health Canada
 
  Workplace smoking: trends, issues and strategies
Examines trends and issues related to smoking in the workplace. Looks at the exposure of non-smokers to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the workplace and smoking restrictions. Provides information and analysis for planning further reductions of ETS exposure in the workplace.
Source: Health Canada
 
  Hosting business functions
Provides tips to employers for planning healthy choices at workplace functions. Offers suggestions for nutritious food choices, active living, smoke-free environments, limiting alcohol, and for keeping the event environmentally friendly.
Source: City of Ottawa
 
  Towards a healthier workplace: a guidebook on tobacco control policies
Designed to support employees and employers who are working to create or strengthen tobacco control in their workplaces, this manual offers information on policy development as well as tools, handouts, case studies and presentation materials.
Source: Health Canada
 

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