Can’t quit? Yale can’t help.
Yale employees looking to stop smoking may have been turning to University Health Services, which ostensibly offers a smoking cessation program. What some of these employees found, however, is that this program does not exist — and a pilot to jump-start such a program ended weeks ago. Lawrence Gipson reports.
David Estep, who runs security in Bass Library during the night shift, has been an “on-off” smoker for the past 20 years. His clinician at Yale told him he should quit, but Estep was never encouraged to join a University-run smoking cessation program — because...
All of the University and Campus should be smoke free ( it might be)
Make em light up outside.and just what is making your employees need a pack a day fer ? Nepotism, rule of three ? Steward voting ? is their car safe in East Rock ?
This is just dumb - Yale's paying the health insurance premiums for these people, it only makes sense to spend a few bucks to help them quit - unless the union pension costs are so high that the downside from higher medical costs is more than offset by the upside from earlier death and therefore lower pension costs.