Cigarette enthusiasts remain unemployed longer and when they find a job, they would earn five dollars less an hour than non-smokers ...
The fEmployers find it more difficult to find employment than non-smokers and therefore remain unemployed much longer. According to experts from la Stanford School of Medicine (California), who wanted to shed light on the link between cigarettes and long-term unemployment, cigarette users who find a job would even earn five dollars less an hour than people who do not smoke.
In twelve months, only 27% of smokers found a job
In their study published this Monday in the American journal JAMA Internal Medicine (in English), these researchers explain having interviewed 131 smokers unemployed and looking for a job and 120 other people, also unemployed, but who did not smoke at the beginning of this study. They questioned them again six months and a year later.
Review of : the team of Judith Prochaska, assistant professor of medicine at Stanford and main author of this work, noted “ smokers had a much harder time finding a job than nonsmokers ". Twelve months after the start of the investigation, only 27% of smokers had, in fact, found a job compared to 56% for non-smokers.
A proven link between smoking and unemployment
If research has already shown a link between smoking and unemployment in the United States as in Europe, the causal link is difficult to establish. Is smoking the cause or the consequence of being unemployed? ? wonders again 
today Dr Judith Prochaska.
For the scientist, there is nothing to indicate smokers have a harder time finding work or are at greater risk of losing their job or if non-smokers who lose their jobs become stressed and then start smoking ».
A major handicap
In fact, to erase the effects on the results of the very different profiles (level of studies, etc.) between smokers and non-smokers, the participants were carefully selected. After taking these variables into account, tobacco addicts still had a significant handicap. Twelve months after the start of the research, their employment rate was 24% lower than that of non-smokers.
Source : 20minutes
