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Smoking in the workplace

In the UK, smoke-free legislation provides that most workplaces must be smoke free.

Employers should review their policies and practices on a regular basis, to ensure that they are complying with the legislation, including for example in relation to their vehicles and employees who work remotely.


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    • Diabetes

    Government plans to ‘level up’ health by tackling poor diet and smoking

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Feb 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Feb 2022

    The government's levelling up white paper outlines plans for more investment in weight management services and healthier eating.

    • Research
    • OH service delivery
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Lockdown boredom and anxiety drove increase in smoking

    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Oct 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Oct 2021

    Nearly half of smokers have been smoking more since the pandemic began

    • Wellbeing and health promotion
    • Smoking in the workplace
    • OHW+

    Smoking cessation push will reap economic benefits, report claims

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Aug 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Aug 2021

    More than half of adults who are in poor health are current or ex-smokers, according to a report that calls for investment in national information campaigns and smoking cessation services.

    • E-cigarettes
    • Coronavirus
    • OH service delivery

    Pandemic leads to increase in ‘stress smoking’

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Apr 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Apr 2021

    More than half of smokers are ‘stress smoking’ or smoking more because of extra strain brought on by the Covid-19...

    • E-cigarettes
    • Blood pressure
    • Research

    Sixteen per cent of adults could have an eating disorder

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jan 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jan 2021

    One in five women and one in eight men screened positive for a possible eating disorder in 2019, recently published...

    • Research
    • Mental health conditions
    • Health surveillance

    Mental health professionals’ smoking training ‘inadequate’

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Dec 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Dec 2020

    Urgent action is needed to improve the training about smoking cessation that mental health nurses and psychiatrists receive, a report...

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    • Cancer
    • Clinical governance

    Smokers urged to quit to reduce risk of coronavirus complications

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Apr 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Apr 2020

    Smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) should be urged to stop smoking immediately or risk complications if they contract...

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    • Latest News
    • Spain

    Pay can be deducted for smoking and coffee breaks, Spanish court rules

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Feb 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Feb 2020

    Companies in Spain can make wage deductions for employees who take coffee or smoking breaks during working hours, the country’s...

    • Fit for Work
    • Obesity
    • Health surveillance

    Just a quarter make lifestyle choices to cut cardiovascular disease risk

    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Oct 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Oct 2019

    Only a quarter of UK adults make conscious decisions about their health and lifestyle to reduce the risk of developing...

    • Obesity
    • Disability
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Third of adults face increased cancer risk because of their weight

    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Jul 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Jul 2019

    One in three (29%) UK adults faces an increased risk of developing bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver case because they...

    • Blood pressure
    • Research
    • Obesity

    Heart and circulatory disease deaths in under-75s on the increase

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2019

    The number of people dying of heart and circulatory diseases before the age of 75 has risen for the first...

    • Latest News
    • Benefits
    • Smoking in the workplace

    Worker given free cigarettes seeks compensation after cancer diagnosis

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Apr 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Apr 2019

    A former tobacco salesman with inoperable lung cancer is seeking compensation from his former employer after he was given hundreds...

    • Wellbeing and health promotion
    • Smoking in the workplace
    • Occupational Health

    Just one in 10 will smoke in 2023, predicts PHE

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Sep 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Sep 2018

    Public Health England (PHE) has estimated that only one in 10 people will smoke in five years’ time, as the...

    • Health surveillance
    • Alcohol and drug misuse
    • Sickness absence management

    Toolkit helps employers tackle alcohol, tobacco and drug misuse

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 May 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 May 2018

    Business in the Community (BITC) and Public Health England have published a toolkit to help employers support their staff in...

    • Smoking in the workplace
    • Holidays and holiday pay

    Should employers give more holiday to non-smokers?

    by Sue Kelly & Selena Arbe-Barnes 23 Nov 2017
    by Sue Kelly & Selena Arbe-Barnes 23 Nov 2017

    A Japanese-based firm recently granted its non-smoking employees additional holiday. Should UK employers follow suit by considering introducing such a...

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