Cost-effectiveness of Smoking Policies

Workplace Smoking Policies Approximately 30 percent of all private sector workplaces have a formal smoking policy, while a majority of Americans support smoking policies. Governments at all levels and the private sector are increasingly adopting or strengthening such policies and there is no evidence of retrenchment. In addition, the protection of nonsmokers, who account for 67 percent of the population, has become a primary motive for the development of policies. For these reasons, OTA believes that increasing adoption of increasingly stringent workplace smoking policies will likely continue for the foreseeable future,