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Employers should encourage their employees to quit smoking, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said on Friday, after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) listed smoking as a risk factor for COVID-19 complications. Smokers are exposed to twice the risk of stroke compared with nonsmokers, four times the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and 22 times the risk of developing lung cancer, the HPA said in a report. Citing 2020 statistics, Smoke Hazard Prevention Division senior technical specialist Liu Chia-hsiu (劉家秀) said that smokers are more prone to taking sick leave, are less productive because they need to take constant smoking breaks and

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