Non-smokers get an extra day off in South Hungary

Are you a non-smoker? If so, you get an extra day off if you are working in Szentes, Hungary, Delmagyar.hu reports. Authorities have recently decided that anyone who works either for the government or a business organisation and who does not smoke will get an extra day off each year.

Szentes is a city located in Csongrád county, in the Southern part of the Great Hungarian Plain, East from the river Tisza. The city has a population of 27,000 people (data from 2017).

The motion was put forward a couple of months ago by a representative called Tamás Rébeli-Szabó. The proposal was carefully investigated, and no legal barriers were found, so it was eventually accepted. It is official: government employees who never smoke get an extra day off every year in Szentes.

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The idea does not seem so crazy if you think about all of those 5-minute-breaks smokers get every day. All of those cigarette breaks combined might reach 24 hours.