Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes

dukeofdummies@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ArchRecord@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Smoking is also an activity that some workplaces allow you to use to justify extra breaks.

  For example, it’s easier for one of my coworkers to go outside and have a smoke break without judgement than it is for me to go sit in the break room for 5-10 minutes and eat a snack if I’m tired.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My grandfather picked up smoking in WWII because non-smoke4s didn’t get any breaks from digging trenches.

    It took over 50 years, but WWII still managed to kill him.

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    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Still a big reason a lot of joes start smoking. If you don’t have nicotine and alcohol issues going in, the Army is happy to issue you some.

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      • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The Air Force may have split from the army in 47, but some traditions carried over.

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  • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also, nicotine serves as a pretty fair appetite suppressant and stimulant, thus why some of us fell into the habit in early college. Easier to justify the cost of a meal a day and a smoke than it is for the supplies to make three squares a day, at least in a food desert.

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  • Waldelfe@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve worked at a cleaning job where the smokers were allowed to go outside whenever. Some even went on a smoke break several times per hour. The nonsmokers like me on the other hand were reprimanded if we sat down and drank something outside of the scheduled break. I complained, but the boss was a smoker and just told me they need their smoke break but I don’t need coffee… One coworker whom I talked to about that even said they started smoking because of this and because the non-smokers were expected to work more and cover for the smokers on their cigarette breaks.

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  • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had a job where breaks were working breaks unless you were a smoker. That’s when I went from only smoking socially to being a regular smoker.

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• askat@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, my coworkers take smoke breaks together and I genuinely think I missing some important socialization because I don’t smoke

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I smoked, we had people that would just come and hang out for the break and the conversation. Go for it, it’s fine. Just don’t complain about smoking or you won’t be welcome, predictably enough.

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    • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is what I used to do, the smoking area outside was a nice little shaded area, i just generally stood upwind of the smokers or slightly askew to avoid the 2nd hand smoke. No one gave me shit, I was just asked occasionally if i smoked.

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      One of my colleagues will even occasionally ask me “Heading for a smoke, wanna come along?” I just love chatting with him, I’ll try to stand upwind so I don’t catch as much second-hand smoke, he gets some company too, everyone’s happy.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    take a cup of coffee or tea and go with them. There are multiple modern addictions that you can choose from.

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    • DonnaFerentes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Take a sparkler to hold, so you can ask for a light

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    • askat@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s actually very good advice

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And be around people smoking? Disgusting

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  • Alaknar@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I never understood this argument.

    Colleague goes for a smoke break? I go with them, just don’t smoke.

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