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OK, I know most companies offer a health insurance discount to their employees who don’t smoke or who quit. But, here’s a new one to me — an extra week off for being a nonsmoker.<\/a><\/p>\n

The logic behind this is nonsmokers don’t take the smoking breaks that smokers do, so they’re entitled to more time off. I like the idea. Whatever it takes to encourage people to quit.<\/p>\n

What’s especially novel about this is Japan is a very smoker-friendly culture. The country has a fairly high smoking rate, though it is apparently dropping. Japan is still 21st in the world<\/a> in the highest rate of cigarettes smoked per capita. That’s way, way ahead of the U.S., Canada and most Western nations.<\/p>\n

I’ve noticed this is Japanese anime, that they really love smoking in Japan, and still consider it very cool and hip.<\/p>\n

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OK, I know most companies offer a health insurance discount to their employees who don’t smoke or who quit. But, here’s a new one to me — an extra week off for being a nonsmoker. The logic behind this is nonsmokers don’t take the smoking breaks that smokers do, so they’re entitled to more time … Continue reading Japan companies offer an extra week off for quitting smoking<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[879],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flcl-smoking-two.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-14i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3268,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3268","url_meta":{"origin":4110,"position":0},"title":"CVS study on smoking cessation: When money is on the line, it encourages smokers to quit","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"May 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"CVS Pharmacies, which is well-known for pulling all tobacco products out of its chain of drug stores, recently\u00a0helped with\u00a0a study on smoking cessation with some interesting results. 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