My personal experience, smoking at job also causes a lot of time waste. For example, my lab assitant smoked and she used to take 10 min break for every 20 min work she (hardly) did and smoke a ton of cigarettes. It is not allowable in an office setting like mine (we develop high speed architectures for computing) where every chip made is very very expensive. A simple ESD problem can lead to $$$$$$ loss. So we fired her. (Ofcourse, she made rude comments as expected "you foreigners know nothing....you guys come here and dictate what we should do....while all we are trying to do is maintain productivity for the company). Now the one that works, she works 8 hrs with honesty....no need to search for my assistant anymore....she is always at her desk in the lab....and gets things done faster than ever I have seen here.
"So we fired her. (Ofcourse, she made rude comments as expected "you foreigners know nothing....you guys come here and dictate what we should do....while all we are trying to do is maintain productivity for the company). Now the one that works, she works 8 hrs with honesty....no need to search for my assistant anymore....she is always at her desk in the lab....and gets things done faster than ever I have seen here."
So, it never occured to you that this lab asst. you fired was just a slacker in general, who happened to smoke?
Puh-leeze. My husband smokes. He gets more done in an average work day than most people get done in a week. I don't smoke, and I'm the same way. We both run our own small businesses. Maybe that "Ownership Society" ethic has something to do with it? Your lab asst. had no personal stake in the success or failure of your lab. Why would she care? A slacker is a slacker, smoker or not.
Why is it lost on you that this battle is for PERSONAL PROPERTY RIGHTS? Why does the government have the right to swoop in, make regulations on how you do business and basically put you OUT of business?
How well would that go over in your lab? Think of something that would cripple your ability to do you job, then imagine the government foisting that upon you and closing your lab.
It's the exact same thing. The smoke Nazis pretend this is all about the health of the workers, but it's not. You're being fooled if you believe that.
I work for myself outdoors, so I smoke everywhere. I set off a good forest fire last week. I hope they don't get any DNA off my dead filter.
Whoops! Time to take my smoke break...