Got a smoking habit? New research shows what’s going up in smoke could be your earnings potential — Smokers earn 20% less than their non-smoking peers.

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Is Smoking Keeping You Poor?
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Got a smoking habit? New research shows what’s going up in smoke could
be your earnings potential — unless you quit.
In a new paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta economists Julie
Hotchkiss and Melinda Pitts found that smokers only earn about 80 percent
of what nonsmokers earn. People who used to smoke and quit more than a
year earlier, though, earn 7 percent more than people who never lit up in
the first place.
The PSA advice that ―one cigarette is one too many‖ apparently is true at
work. Hotchkiss and Pitts found that the earnings of both a weekend social
smoker and a pack-a-day puffer suffer a similar wage gap.
―It is simply the fact that someone smokes that matters in the labor
market, not the level of intensity,‖ they wrote. ―Even one cigarette per day
is enough to trigger the smoking wage gap.‖
Jack Bradway, lead salesman for a company that produces legal
conferences, smokes a pack-and-a-half a day. The 36-year-old New Yorker
said he doesn’t think how much he makes has been affected by his habit.

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―I don’t think it ever stopped me from receiving compensation or blocked
me from any promotions,‖ he said.
If he didn’t smoke, he said, ―It just means I’d be at my desk for a total of
maybe 30 minutes more.‖
Bradway said he eats lunch at his desk and keeps his breaks brief, chain-
smoking two cigarettes during each of his three daily smoke breaks. ―One
hits the pavement, another gets lit up,‖ he said.
Hotchkiss and Pitts found that heavy smokers aren’t less productive than
other workers, but even if they get their work done on time, their earnings
still suffer.
The two researchers attribute about 60 percent of the wage gap between
smokers and nonsmokers to demographic differences — collectively,
smokers tend to be less-educated than nonsmokers, for instance — but the
rest were ascribed to what they called, ―unmeasured factors.‖
―The wage disadvantage to smoking has been well documented… [but]
hard to believe that the direct unpleasantness of smoking is the main
factor,‖ Frank Stafford, an economics professor at the University of
Michigan’s Population Studies Center, said via email.
In considering what those other factors could be, Hotchkiss and Pitts
mentioned an employer’s tolerance for smoking in the workplace. Beyond
that, they and other experts theorize that there could be personality traits
that differentiate current smokers, former smokers and nonsmokers.

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―We suggest that it is something about the persistent smoker's lack of self-
control and the inability to quit,‖ Stafford said.
Conversely, smokers display other qualities that can be beneficial in
business, said Kim Ruyle, president of Inventive Talent Consulting, LLC.
―There’s a social aspect to leadership that’s important, and there’s a social
aspect to smoking as well,‖ he said.
And smoking is a risky behavior, which can pay off in certain professions.
―Many effective leaders are highly curious, they experiment, they’re willing
to take more risks than some people will,‖ Ruyle said.
When a smoker quits, they keep those behaviors and add a strong dose of
self-discipline — another trait that can help out someone’s career.
―That discipline is useful in the workplace as far as focus on projects and
tasks, expectations of similar discipline from subordinates, or simply the
discipline for good attendance,‖ George Boué, expert with the Society for
Human Resource Management and vice president of human resources at
commercial real estate firm Stiles, said via email.
―It takes a whole lot of perseverance to stop an addictive behavior, and
perhaps that transfers over into labor market behavior as well,‖ Pitts
speculated.

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Emily Busscher, a quality control technician at a manufacturing company,
said she doesn’t think being a smoker since the age of 15 has held her
back. ―Everybody I work with smokes,‖ she said.
But the 28-year-old Michigan resident acknowledged that quitting might
make her bosses think, ―She’s willing to do stuff, so she can make it
places.‖
Busscher said she has quit smoking for short stretches before. If she kicked
the habit for good, ―They’d figure I was a stronger-willed person,‖ she said.
―I’d be more apt to be like a supervisor or somebody higher than where
I’m at.‖
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