Offices Get Creative to Put Out More Fags

Korean companies are thinking up innovative ways of encouraging their staff to quit smoking, including vigilante squads, fines, financial incentives and surreptious camphone shots of puffing culprits, reports Digital Chosunilbo, revealing yet anothing novel use for camera phones.

"Chung Guk-young, 29, director of Samsung Electronics no-smoking club said "staff have begun using their camera phones to catch their coworkers smoking,". He admits there were complaints that this was going too far, "but as the number of employees who successfully quit smoking increased, there is a mood of satisfaction," he adds."

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