http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japanese-firm-piala-inc-tokyo-non
-smokers-extra-six-days-holiday-cigarette-break-a8028541.html
英国新闻
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烟员工一年多六天假以弥补抽菸者出去抽菸时没工作到的时间
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公司在九月时，因为非吸菸的员工抱怨他们比瘾君子的同时工作更多，提供非吸菸
者请假津贴
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是公司的负责人，他说：“我们一个不抽菸的员工今年稍早丢了一
个员工意见函，说抽菸休息时间是一个问题。”
Following the suggestion, the company's CEO Takao Asuka decided to give non-sm
oking employees extra time off to compensate, Mr Matsushima added.
看过意见函后，公司的CEO，Takao Asuka决定给非吸菸者多余的假日当作弥补
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.
这个决定已经实施，在29号时办公室已经宣布，抽菸时间规定为至少15分钟
Mr Asuka hopes the scheme will create an incentive for the company's staff to
quit smoking.
Asuka希望这个办法能够让公司的瘾君子能够因为这个诱因而戒菸。
Efforts to reduce the number of smokers and impose tougher anti-smoking regula
tions have been seen across Japan in recent months.
近几个月，日本已经开始致力于减少瘾君子以及订定更严厉的抽菸相关规定
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.
七月时，东京一个议员Yuriko拟定了一些计画来为这个2020会是奥运主场的城市禁菸
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.
但这个计画可能会有很大的阻碍，因为抽菸餐厅，政客，菸厂(政府拥有三分之一股权)在
2015年付了七亿的股利给政府
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.
世界健康组织将日本列为禁菸国家的倒数几名，因为日本公共区域几乎都可吸菸，而且将
近18趴的人都会抽菸。
心得：日本公司真佛心，还提供非吸菸者假日可放。