In my industry, as many others, time is money. When at work why the heck should smokers be allowed or think it's okay to pop outside 8 times a day for 5-10mins and chug away while non-smokers continue on? Policy (work place or government) is put aside in this area, more so if a senior/manager is one of these types. Fark if I like it, smoking during work hours should stop across the board...Bugga off chugga's, this is real work place harassment - you and your stinky breath.
Yeah!
Why waste 10 minutes sucking on a cancer stick when you can waste 15 minutes replying to seabeeze posts.? 
I found it hard to get going today.. It's raining,..
toooo muuuuuchh cofffeeee!
MEDIC Send a medic!! 
How about going to get a coffee 5 x a day and chatting for a couple mins at the sink / urn etc area?
Shall we ban coffee at work?
Maybe the smoker works 1% faster and is still ahead of the employee who does just enough to not get sacked and has no drive whatsoever?
In my industry, I would NEVER DISCRIMINATE against a smoker... I tell you why... 3 of the most competent colleagues that I know are smokers... They will wander off down stairs for a ciggie, clear the mind, have a little break... Gives them a moment to refocus, and focus on the more important things... The cost significant issues... Come back up, and plough right back into it...
There's another bunch of other people that have a break and start talking to each other, and now you have 2 or 3 people not working... (on company time ).
If I was employing, I would have these 3 "smokers" on top of my list!! Great blokes...
PS - I'm not a smoker.
PSS - I understand the concept... smoker is smoking, not working... When your work requires thought, or deep thought, a smoker can kick back and "think" about the important things... Smoking breaks can actually be quite productive for some people, in certain professions... Engineering, Design, Creative Arts... Flip side, a smoker in a call centre needs to stop their mundane work for a ciggie... Two sides to this coin peoples!! 
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With the trade I was in, I absolutely loathed having smokers on my crew, couldnt keep far enough away from them for my liking.
stephen
When I was a smoker - 15 years ago, I made a lot more friends in the office, whist we were outside having a smoke break. People I would not normally talk to or interact with.Work as also usually the topic of discussion.
I miss that interaction. Its the only thing I miss about smoking..
It will be a sad day when you life is so controlled by the people you work for you cant even go out side for a 10 minute break.
I knew a young woman once... She smoked like a chimney. Lying in bed, her pores were just oozing with nicotine and cigarette smoke smells. But her appetite for sex could be described as being between "extremely impressive", and "insatiable"!
She could orgasm from intercourse whether she was on top or below or infront. In a decent over-night session I might score four home runs compared to her 10!! Insatiable! So I happily put up with her cigarettes !
So I happily put up with her cigarettes !
So I happily put up with her cigarettes ! 
wow Simondo, funny thing about the web, once its posted its on for good.....and evil.
what's that the police line.. anything you say maybe used against you blah blah, I think you forgot to say, I knew a bloke once who knew a chick once...
Yes, smokers have to understand how bad the smell is for non smokers, once had to share an office with a obese sweating chain smok'n, foul body odour and garlic smell'n dude, on ocassion, I got back at him with a couple of well placed smelly farts..
...second to that, the government collected 400m+ in revenue from chuggers last year and injected less than a third of that back into the heath system...so the short fall of this is picked up by you the tax payer...how do you feel now?
well put i this way, if on checkin at the airport I weigh 80 kilos and have an allocation of twenty kilos baggage and I am over then I pay excess, if as what happened, the guy in front at the checkin weighed 120+ kilos and was under the allocation of 20 kilos and paid nothing, rules are rules but are a little skewed for political correctness
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