This Bad Habit Could Keep You From Getting a Job...

Smokers Have A Harder Time Finding Jobs And Are Paid Less, According To New Study!

The research published this month in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that buying that daily pack of cigarettes not only takes a serious toll on your health and your wallet — but your paycheck as well.

Links between smoking and unemployment have been established in past studies conducted across America and the UK. While those who are unemployed are far more likely to smoke (some findings suggest that they are as much as twice as likely to smoke) it has been hard to determine whether the stress of unemployment drove them to pick up the habit or whether it is the act of smoking itself that contributes to the job seeker's lack of success. Lead author of the study Judith Prochaska, also an associate professor of medicine at Stanford, sought to pin down the cause of this correlation. "You don't know if smokers have a harder time finding work or if smokers are more likely to lose their jobs — or that when nonsmokers lose their jobs, they become stressed and start to smoke," she said in a press release.

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