The right choice for healthy business

Becoming a tobacco-free company has never been easier! A smoke–free campus policy benefits your business, employee health and the environment. Making the choice to become a tobacco-free company can help reduce your direct health care costs over the long term and provide an attractive quality for recruitment and business. Simple choices such as making outdoor areas and entryways smoke-free, banning smoking indoors (if your business is exempt from the Florida Clean Indoor Air Act) and offering help through cessation services to employees who want to quit can help you:

• Raise revenue,
• Protect the health of your employees, and
• Increase worker productivity.

Benefits of becoming a tobacco-free workplace

• Environment
  Decreases cleaning and maintenance costs
  Reduces the risk of fires, potentially decreasing insurance costs
• Productivity
  Reduces health care costs and increases worker productivity
  Smokers who quit save businesses $5000+ per year per smoker, on average
• Morale
  A tobacco-free policy inspires and assists tobacco users in quitting
  Boosts morale by telling employees you care about their health and safety
  Leads to more satisfied clients and community
• Reduced Secondhand Smoke
  Creates a healthier work environment for employees
  Reduces secondhand smoke and all its negative health consequences
• Health
  Helps prevent tobacco-related diseases like cancer, heart disease and stroke
  Reduces illness-related absenteeism

How does my business go tobacco-free?

We will guide you through the process of designing and implementing a tobacco-free workplace, connecting you to effective resources along the way.  The gold standard for promoting a tobacco-free workplace has four components: 

• Implement a tobacco-free workplace policy
• Help employees quit tobacco through cessation health benefits
• Offer cessation initiatives
• Work with health care providers

Get started!

If you need assistance with implementing a tobacco free policy, the Tobacco Prevention Program can provide you with the necessary help. We offer free resources, including a step-by-step toolkit and signage for your business.

For more information:

• Pascale Edouard, Employer Cessation Specialist
  (941) 861-2779 or via email