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PacBell built a new data center in San Diego in 1983. The cafeteria floor space was split between smoking and non-smoking. By mid-1985, the ceilings on the smoking side were yellowish-brown. The air intakes on the ceiling were the same way. On the "office floors", there was a designated smoking room. Inside of 6 months, not even the smokers would enter those rooms. The janitorial staff was explicitly directly not to leave the doors open to the office working space as the stench was unbearable. Eventually, the whole building was declared non-smoking and some very expensive renovation took place to make the smoking areas acceptable for use again.

“PacBell built a new data center in San Diego in 1983. The cafeteria floor space was split between smoking and non-smoking. By mid-1985, the ceilings on the smoking side were yellowish-brown. The air intakes on the ceiling were the same way. On the “office floors”, there was a designated smoking room. Inside of 6 months, not even the smokers would enter those rooms. The janitorial staff was explicitly directly not to leave the doors open to the office working space as the stench was unbearable. Eventually, the whole building was declared non-smoking and some very expensive renovation took place to make the smoking areas acceptable for use again.”

‘Acceptable’ to who? To those handing down rules?

“The janitorial staff was explicitly directly not to leave the doors open to the office working space as the stench was unbearable.”
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I’m sure the janitors were just as sensitive to the unbearable stench of plugged toilets from fat ass employees. We all have something we hate. You seem to hate smokers. I can’t abide gassy, farty, BM’s. To each his own yet smokers are the new lepers while over-eating gas bags are okay. I’ll take a smoker any day over a farting, toilet filling, stinker. BTW, both gasses, whether from lungs or colon, are debateable as to health risks. I prefer the smell of smoke over human waste any day.

Smoking if really a filthy habbit and I'm glad to see the changes we've made. I do think sometimes we go too far. If someone wants to smoke on a park bench in the open air, and I don't have to breathe it or smell it, then that's okay.

But I've had to suffer for years in many situations where I have to breathe in the garbage. We have a lot of troglodytes here on FR who just can't imagine that other people don't want to breathe in their smoke. It's supreme arrogance for people of their generation although I'm probably as old as some of them. Smokers really don't appreciate just how much non-smokers suffer when they have to breathe in their smoke. I've even had to return rental cars after just a few miles because the smell was so bad from whoever had the car last. I glad of these new rules.