This company will give you extra holidays if you are a non-smoker

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New Delhi: A marketing firm in Japan has come up with an initiative that is supposed to help its staff quit smoking.

The firm is giving its non-smoking staff an additional six days of holiday a year to make up for the time off smokers take for cigarette breaks, reports The Independent.

The firm named Piala Inc, introduced the new paid leave allowance in September after getting a complaint from non-smokers that they were working more than their colleagues who smoked.

After receiving a complaint from one of the non-smoking employees, the company's CEO acted on it and decided to give non-smoking employees extra time off to compensate.

The Tokyo-based company is situated on the 29th floor of a building, making a cigarette break a 15-minute affair at least, says the report.

The CEO hopes that the scheme will create an incentive for the company's staff to quit smoking.

Efforts to reduce the number of smokers and impose tougher anti-smoking regulations have been seen across Japan in recent months.

In July, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike made plans ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics.