Our workplace rules for smokers. Does your office have similar? Are they extreme?

I have to agree with JM that sticking your butt out the window is a thoroughly anti-social thing to do. Nobody wants to see that.

In seriousness, it's also an incredibly dangerous thing to do if you're in a dry country and I find it staggering that people do it given the risks. Particularly as, as JM says, they've got an ashtray right there. To be honest any littering is actually pretty dangerous on the roads as any motor-cyclists will tell you. One mans apple core is another mans oil slick.

Well, the gasoline boys were looking at it. (if its lewd pls. delete)
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Where I work is not that extreme. There is an outside designated smoking area. Non-exempt employees use their breaks. Exempt employees use their discretion.

I'm an ex-smoker, I try not to be a "reformed *****", but smokers really stink like ashtrays. I wouldn't mind if they "cleaned up" after smoking. I wouldn't say anything to them though...

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Pretty much this at my workplace

As I get older, I worry less about what others are doing and more about my own behavior. I can't change their behavior but I can change mine. Shouting at smokers to quit will give yourself grief more than it gives them.

Of course, there are personal boundaries which, one infringed, tends to develop wrath. However, I do think in the US the boundaries are very well defined and there is little invasion of that boundary. However, far too many people worry and take action against those who have no infringement on their boundary, whatever that may be.

We care too much and want to do too much about things that truly do not affect us. In the US, it is generally accepted that smokers only smoke in acceptable places which are readily avoidable by those who don't want to smoke. There's a growing portion of people that want to eradicate smoking even though it has no direct or indirect affect on them. This is the same attitude for an innumerable number of things. While it can be argued 'for the children', pretty much banning everything can be validly argued 'it's for the children', which makes that argument much more tenuous.

Further, a lot of such people are simply sniveling cowards, and try to use the force of government to impose their will on everyone else. Remember, if you think that 'someone should do something', then they probably shouldn't.

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Further, a lot of such people are simply sniveling cowards, and try to use the force of government to impose their will on everyone else. Remember, if you think that 'someone should do something', then they probably shouldn't.

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Along those lines I believe it is a right for a woman to chose to terminate a pregnancy for herself. The government, analogous in a way to an employer, has stepped in and is deciding that based on others beliefs. Now that I think of it though...this might be a topic for a whole other thread.

This thread sounds like the premise of a new sitcom where it's employees vs smokers

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Remember, if you think that 'someone should do something', then they probably shouldn't.

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Nah... I would never tell a smoker what to do. I just applaud them when they toss their cigarettes to the ground with the hundreds of others.

When they toss them into the bushes, I yell "Score!!!"

Into a lake: "You're the man!" or "You go, woman!"

Next to an ashcan: "You were close."

On a children's playground: "Now you're thinking!"


Seriously, I don't say any of the above. :)

I recently started smoking meth since we have a ban on cigarettes at my work place

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I recently started smoking meth since we have a ban on cigarettes at my work place

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See, that's how you stick it to the man. And if they ban that, then you move on to bath salts.

It's so extreme rule. My company workers don't smoke, they just drink.