Hyland Suggests Mandatory Stop-Smoking Classes for County Employees
County supervisor ponders whether county employees who smoke can be made to take classes to stop smoking, according to news report.
Mount Vernon District Supervisor Gerry Hyland is suggesting that the county make it mandatory that employees who smoke take classes to stop smoking, and on Saturday, a county spokeswoman told the Associated Press that the county's attorneys are looking into the idea. Hyland made the suggestion at a recent county Board of Supervisors meeting, the Washington Post reported. Hyland's father, who was a smoker, died at age 50 of lung cancer, the AP report said. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has estimated that the cost of smoking (estimated cost of smoking-related medical expenses and loss of productivity) exceeds $167 billion annually. A Harvard Business Review blog recently pushed the idea that cigarettes should cost $25 …
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