For the most part, we know that smoking is bad for you. But there seems to be one really big perk to being a smoker - those cigarettes are getting them a ton of extra time off work.

Light smokers end up taking about 90 minutes worth of smoke breaks each week, which is about 18 minutes a day.  Heavier smokers end up taking five hours worth of smoke breaks each week, or about 60 minutes a day.

Over 47 weeks of work a year - that's a year minus three weeks of vacation and two weeks of holidays - that means light smokers get an extra 70.5 hours worth of breaks, the equivalent of nine extra "vacation" days.

Heavy smokers get an extra 235 hours worth of breaks, the equivalent of 29 extra "vacation" days…or almost six weeks off!

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