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Of course, part of this has to do with a higher percentage of smokers in Europe.

Buyin' the Kool-Aid, eh? I'm a smoker and haven't taken a sick day in two years. It's the non-smokers who call in. All the freakin' time.

It’s the secondhand smoke.

>>>Buyin’ the Kool-Aid, eh? I’m a smoker and haven’t taken a sick day in two years. It’s the non-smokers who call in. All the freakin’ time.<<<

Do I even need to bring forth the statistics? I work in the healthcare field. Without fail, the people getting sick are smokers. There are few things you can habitually do that so unfailingly destroy your health.

I’m just going to advise you to quit. A life of COPD awaits 25-30% of those of you who don’t.

New research confirms the major impact that cigarette smoking has on the work force. Economist Petter Lundborg from Free University, Amsterdam, estimates that smoking is responsible for more than one third of all sick days taken each year.

The figure is based on an analysis of Swedish registry data containing the annual number of sick days amassed by 14,272 workers between 1988 and 1991.

Twenty-nine percent of the workers were current smokers, 26 percent were ex-smokers and 45 percent never smoked. The non-smokers averaged 20 sick days a year, while current smokers averaged 34 days and ex-smokers 25 days.

http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-35990-66.html

Among the approximately 59,000 women serving in the U.S. Navy, smoking at the time of enlistment was consistently associated with poor work performance, as well as a higher risk for demotion, desertion, or a less-than-honorable discharge, reported Terry L. Conway Ph.D., and colleagues at San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/Smoking/tb/5356