A year-long study has found that smokers not only remain unemployed for longer than their non-smoking counterparts, they also earn substantially less when they do work.Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine surveyed 131 unemployed smokers and 120 unemployed non-smokers.They discovered that, after a year, only 27% of smokers had found jobs compared with 56% of non-smokers.And smokers who had found employment earned $5 less per hour on average."The health harms of smoking have been established for decades," said Judith Prochaska, the lead researcher."Our study provides insight into the financial harms of smoking both in terms of lower re-employment success and lower wages."What they also found was that smokers on average were younger, less educated and in poorer health than non-smokers. Prochaska explained that such differences might influence a job seeker's ability to find work...