There is a (negative) relationship between smoking and salary: greater tobacco consumption is often connected to a minor wage, especially in younger workers.
It is not a mystery that smoke tobacco It is harmful to health: the time that every cigarette “steals” to our life has recently been calculated in 20 minutes. If you need further reasons to quit smoking, however, a study published on Nicotine & Tobacco Research It provides them: the researchers have in fact identified a correlation (Attention: not a causality!) Between smoke and average salary of the workers under 40, discovering that A greater number of cigarette packages would be connected with a decrease in compensation.
THE pack-yaars. Scholars analyzed the data regarding Almost 3,600 Finns between 24 and 39 years of ageresiding in urban and rural areas born between 1962 and 1977. The observation began in 2001.
To evaluate cumulative tobacco exposure they used A standardized unit called “Pack-Year” (literally “year-packet”), which is calculated by multiplying the daily average of cigarettes smoked by the current age of the person less the age in which he started smoking. Thus is obtained a figure that corresponds to the number of years in which the person smoked a package a day (or 20 cigarettes).
More fumes, less earnings. The researchers found that Each pack-year In addition, it was associated with a decrease of 1.8% of the salary and 0.5% of the years worked. This trend would not be worthwhile for the former smokers (who smoked but no longer does it).
Between smokers and non -smokers have also been recorded considerable differences in pay, especially between younger and less schoolped workers. Smoking, therefore the researchers underline, could have A negative impact also on work prospects Future of the boys.
The impacts of smoking at work. It is not the first time you look at the negative effect of the consumption of tobacco on the career: in the past the smoke had been associated with a less working successprobably due to the negative impacts that cigarettes have in productivity, in particular in physical works. This study makes us reflect further on the relationship and, although it does not demonstrate the existence of a cause-effect bond between tobacco and low salaries, gives us one more reason to quit smoking.
