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Business, Health care leaders call on Texas employers to cover smoking cessation
Leading business and health care organizations gathered at the State Capitol today to launch the Texas Coalition for Worksite Wellness' "Call for Coverage and Treatment" campaign, urging Texas-based businesses to provide employees with comprehensive smoking cessation benefits. The goal is to increase the number of Texas workers with comprehensive smoking cessation coverage by an additional 100,000 within the next year. [Read more.]
Employer, physician toolkits help workers beat their addiction
As more Texas cities go smoke free, two members of the Texas Coalition for Worksite Wellness—the Texas Academy of Family Physicians and Texas Association of Business' local chambers—are equipping doctors and employers with tools and resources to help Texans who want to quit successfully do so. [Read more.]