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Originally Posted by manaboutown

What I have noticed over the years is that employers get far less work from smokers who need to go outside on frequent breaks to smoke. (That is the nature of the addiction. Priority one is to smoke when the urge presents itself or suffer withdrawal. Nicotine is a drug.) Meanwhile the nonsmokers inside keep working away. The nonsmokers end up carrying part of the smokers' loads as a consequence to the smoke breaks.

In a healthcare environment the other workers and patients in particular should not have to suffer the stench from the reeking clothes and bodies of smokers in close quarters to themselves.

Cheers employers who are taking this step!

As a Human Resources Mgr in a prior life, I frequently had to admonish the employees who often extended their break and meal time allocations - and some of them were non-smokers. So please don't lump all non-smoking employees into the group of employees who are honest about their work/break time. Frequently admonished also were the employees who arrived late to work and who punched out early from their job. Those workloads were not "carried" by anyone - they went undone!

And anyone who has overdosed in a fragrance or who has adorned themselves in any obnoxious fragrance should not be permitted in any public place.