Are Smoke Breaks Fair?

[Wolfpac]

When you are a smoker, every few hours you get the luxury of going outside and having a smoke. While as a non-smoker I have to keep on working. But if I go outside and talk to the smoker and I get busted I get in trouble while my smoking buddy gets to finish off his smoke. I few years ago during the end of one of our designated breaks, all of the non-smokers were told to get back to work while the smokers just puffed away for another few minutes. While I understand that cigarettes are just like a drug, is it fair that smokers get better treatment than non-smokers?

[Nate]

It's totally not fair. The last job I worked at actually mandated that the smokers could only pop out during specified smoko breaks, when everyone else would stop and have a coffee.

That's probably the reason why we had so few smokers; they got sick of the rule and either quit the job or smoking.

[Havoc]

Ofcourse it's not fair. I think companies should do it like Nate said. Thats fair and normal if you ask me.

[Oddish]

I don't thinks it is fair if only smokers should have breaks, non-smokers should too, yeah, like posted above they should allow this. It was the reason why my mother started smoking, becuase it was only her who is a non-smoker, while everyone else is having thier smoke breaks and enjoying thier no working period, but only she works, and on her own. Makes her feel left out, and treated unfairly. It was like a excuse for having breaks whenever the smokers felt like it, but the non-smoker didn't have that choice.

[Joshy]

If they give me breaks to go get a drink for a few minutes during work, then smoking breaks are fair.


In economical term, no smoking breaks are bad, they are a social cost to the cost of production of the company, thereby reducing economical growth.

[Havoc]

I guess it also depends on what kind of company you're working at. If there isn't much work presure in the first place, and you can alreayd doze off a bit while just sitting at your desk, then you don't realy have the right to complain. Ofcourse when you're in an extremely busy office on the 100th floor of the New York WTC... thats a diffrent story :P.

[Facsimile]

We don't have anything like 'smoker's breaks', but that is totally unfair.

At my work you get the breaks you are given and that's all you get throughout the day. If you want a smoke or a drink, you do it then.

[Fuzzle Guy]

That is unfair, I agree with Nate, non smokers should get a coffee break aswell.

Which brings me to I'm a Celeb Get me out of here, why do the smokers get their cigarettes, the non smokers don't get biscuits or anything like that.

In Debating Club at school, my favourite teacher runs it, and 4 weeks ago we did about smoking, and Against smoking won. All the things against smoking that we came up with made our teacher give up smoking.

[Blood Elite]

Yea that does seem unfair, but if ye think about it......they may have a smoke break now but their slowly widiling down their life span. So let em smoke...they'll regret it one day.

[Statikk HDM]

For no damn reason smokers pay good money to suck carcinogens down their throats, making themselves ill and everything around them smell terrible. Then they have the gall to take long breaks when working. Drinkers, dippers, and chewers(more damaging and wasteful shit that people let themselves get hooked on) don't get breaks. You know what else mellows people out, relieves stress, and releases chemicals in the brain and body along with feeling great? Masturbation. But the good thing about it is I'm not doing it 5 times a day(at least not while working), its not releasing carcinogens for innocents to suck down, and it isn't seriously damaging to the perpetrator. In fact, doing it once a week has been shown to have health benefits such as increased heart strength and prostate health.
Statikk's Plan: Phase out smoking. Its a silly habit. Replace it with mandatory masturbation, at least once a week. Watch suicide rates, crime rates, and cardiac deaths plummet.
/I feel it necessary to tell you that this was done with tongue planted firmly in cheek. I still hate smoking.

[Nate]

it isn't seriously damaging to the perpetrator.

Depends How much you do it, I guess

In fact, doing it once a week has been shown to have health benefits such as increased heart strength and prostate health.

I heard at least 3 times a week but whatever. The thing I didn't get about that anyway was that it has to be masturbation; sex doesn't count.