Employers welcome national ban on smoking in the workplace. Click link and read more...

From a national perspective, smoking and exposure to smokers impact both the health of future employees and the probability that they themselves will be smoking at the time they enter the world of work. An important factor for employers in the context of recruitment for smoke free workplaces is the data on tobacco use by school age persons. The 2007 Trinidad & Tobago Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) showed that 37.4 percent of students had smoked cigarettes; 22.3 percent currently use any tobacco product; 14.4 percent currently smoke cigarettes; 11.2 percent currently use other tobacco products and 13.4 percent of never smokers were likely to initiate smoking in the next year.

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