[strider44]

True. You can't call them uniformly dumb. My father has smoked for 40 years, and he's still one of the smartest people I know. He's just addicted. It's very dissapointing to me, but that's life. People do lots of things they know are bad for them, it doesn't make them dumb, it just shows a lack of will. Eating too much fast food is the same thing. My problem with smoking is that the people who smoke where I work go outside to do it in a designated smoking area. Fine. But they're out there 6 or 7 times a day, 5 to 10 minutes a time, while I'm inside working. I don't get to walk outside and just bullshit for 10 minutes with friends. Just because they smoke, they get these built-in breaks. Very annoying.

[Gabz]

I don't get to walk outside and just bullshit for 10 minutes with friends.

Why don't you just go with them, instead of complaining about it?

While I am not pointing a finger at you, personally, I have no sympathy for the whining of non-smokers about smokers going out to have a cigarette. It was the whiners that caused the problem in the first place by forcing the smokers to go outside to begin with. It's called the law of unintended consequences.

[SheLion]

Just because they smoke, they get these built-in breaks. Very annoying.

Where my hubby works, they usually go out once an hour. IF they aren't busy. If they are busy, they don't go.

The non smokers go right with them. Gives them all a time to socialize, breath fresh air, and take a 10 minute stretch. IF they aren't busy.

[Great Dane]

I don't get to walk outside and just bullshit for 10 minutes with friends. Just because they smoke, they get these built-in breaks. Very annoying.

If they hadn't banned smoking everywhere, this would not be an issue.