B-231543: Feb 3, 1989

Federal agencies have authority to establish smoking cessation programs for their employees and to use appropriated funds to pay the costs incurred by employees participating in these programs. The Office of Personnel Management would have to amend the Federal Personnel Manual to add smoking cessation as a prevention activity that agencies can include as part of the health services program they pr...

B-231543: Feb 3, 1989

The Department of the Treasury requested a decision regarding whether the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) could use appropriated funds to pay for employees' attendance at smoking cessation programs. GAO held that statutes authorized federal agencies to: (1) establish smoking cessation programs for their employees; and (2) use appropriated funds to pay for employees' program participation costs. GAO...