Smoking and alcohol consumption have profound effects on individual health and public health at large. This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the impact of smoking and alcohol consumption on the health levels of employees using data from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS2018). The results show that passive smoking has a significant negative impact on employees' health: for each one-point increase in the frequency of passive smoking, employees' physical health level decreases by 2.89%. In addition, factors such as gender, age, household registration status, overtime work, exercise, diet, and sleep all show significant effects on employees' health status. Therefore, it is recommended to effectively control smoking behavior and reduce its negative impact on public health through strengthening legislation and law enforcement, increasing tobacco taxes and prices, enhancing health education, promoting smoking cessation services, social co-governance, and multi-departmental collaboration.

Wentao Xue. The Impact of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption on Employees' Physical Health - An Empirical Study Based on CLDS2018. Academic Journal of Medicine & Health Sciences (2025), Vol. 6, Issue 7: 37-45. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJMHS.2025.060706.

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