http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japanese-firm-piala-inc-tokyo-non
-smokers-extra-six-days-holiday-cigarette-break-a8028541.html
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A Japanese company is granting its non-smoking staff an additional six days of
holiday a year to make up for the time off smokers take for cigarette breaks.
一家日本公司提供非吸煙員工一年多六天假以彌補抽菸者出去抽菸時沒工作到的時間
Marketing firm Piala Inc introduced the new paid leave allowance in September
after non-smokers complained they were working more than their colleagues who
smoked.
Piala公司在九月時，因為非吸菸的員工抱怨他們比癮君子的同時工作更多，提供非吸菸
者請假津貼
Hirotaka Matsushima, a spokesman for the company, told糍he Telegraph: "One of
our non-smoking staff put a message in the company suggestion box earlier in t
he year saying that smoking breaks were causing problems."
Hirotaka Matsushima是公司的負責人，他說：「我們一個不抽菸的員工今年稍早丟了一
個員工意見函，說抽菸休息時間是一個問題。」
Following the suggestion, the company's CEO Takao Asuka decided to give non-sm
oking employees extra time off to compensate, Mr Matsushima added.
看過意見函後，公司的CEO，Takao Asuka決定給非吸菸者多餘的假日當作彌補
The matter has been taken seriously by the Tokyo-based company which is report
edly based on the 29th floor of an office block — making any cigarette break
last at least 15 minutes, according to staff.
這個決定已經實施，在29號時辦公室已經宣布，抽菸時間規定為至少15分鐘
Mr Asuka hopes the scheme will create an incentive for the company's staff to
quit smoking.
Asuka希望這個辦法能夠讓公司的癮君子能夠因為這個誘因而戒菸。
Efforts to reduce the number of smokers and impose tougher anti-smoking regula
tions have been seen across Japan in recent months.
近幾個月，日本已經開始致力於減少癮君子以及訂定更嚴厲的抽菸相關規定
In July, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike made plans濳o impose a smoking ban in pub
lic places across the Japanese capitalahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics.
七月時，東京一個議員Yuriko擬定了一些計畫來為這個2020會是奧運主場的城市禁菸
But the proposal is likely to encounter strong opposition from pro-smoking pol
iticians, restaurateurs and cigarette manufacturing giant Japan Tobacco, which
is one third government-owned and paid the state $700m in dividends in 2015.
但這個計畫可能會有很大的阻礙，因為抽菸餐廳，政客，菸廠(政府擁有三分之一股權)在
2015年付了七億的股利給政府
The World Health Organisation ranks Japan at the bottom of the list in anti-sm
oking regulations according to the type of public places entirely smoke-free a
nd around 18 per cent of Japanese are believed to smoke.
世界健康組織將日本列為禁菸國家的倒數幾名，因為日本公共區域幾乎都可吸菸，而且將
近18趴的人都會抽菸。
心得：日本公司真佛心，還提供非吸菸者假日可放。