How do you manage smoking at Work/Duty place

[voorhees]

Afraid not. I work in the automotive paint industry. Too many flammable items.

 

[johnbarleycorn]

I'm a partner in an engineering company and we have a no tobacco policy at the office (not sure why. I need to check into that). So I have to wait till everyone else leaves the office to smoke at my desk. But luckily I get out of the office almost daily to check on construction projects which affords me the opportunity to smoke. I also live 2 miles from the office which allows for trips home during lunch break for a bowl on occasion. But I really do need to check on loosing up on the tobacco policy.

 

[sablebrush52]

If I'm working at a studio, I'll take a break to have a short bowl at one of the smoking areas on the lot. If I'm working at home, I just go lunting when I need a break.

 

[phantomwolf]

Medically retired from the Army. Tried going back to work, but getting hired outside of my vocation is tough, as I am seen as over-qualified. Physical labor is off the table and I'd rather die poor than work another day in the Information Technology field. haha With that, I guess I'll smoke another pipe.

 

[jvnshr]

After dropping the wifey to the work, I smoke on my way to the office, it is a 20-30 minute drive. Smoking inside the office is not allowed, so after having a lunch I go to the parking garage, open the windows and the roof of the car and smoke inside. Best 30 minutes of the whole working time. I have just finished smoking Chatham Manor in my MM Diplomat 5th Ave corn cob.

 

[mortonbriar]

I share a bowl between driving to and from work, I might keep puffing for a while when I am setting up the jobsite in the morning but once I am making saw dust I put the pipe away. I find lunchtime smokes too much of a tease so usually do not bother.

 

[didache]

I'm a clergyman and my study is in my house so I can pretty well smoke as I please. I'm fortunate. Apart from a bowl now and then while I take my dog for a run in the woods, I don't smoke much outside the house/garden.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Thanks Guys for the input ,all interesting stories, as for myself I spent lots of my years in the Military(border patrols)and at other security related jobs, now doing drivers job at funeral home(part time-no smoking in car)and then truck driving (dump truck)and here I'feel more or less happy because I can smoke in the cabine,if it was not possible I'd perhaps would call it quits,in reference to Mr Tschiraldi who tells us being employed at correctional facility,I was startled to learn that many state establishments' are bannig smoking at these duty placesnow how on the earth one is supposed to spend the whole shift and not having possibility to smoke nothing?I find these being cruelsome antihuman rules invented by smug&mean administration,,

 

[mawnansmiff]

We have an all out smoking ban in the workplace here in the UK and I'm sure I read somewhere that even a self employed delivery driver using his/her own vehicle is prohibited from smoking in that vehicle!
Regards,
Jay.

 

[pappymac]

I am in the ranks of the self-employed. (In fact, I am sitting at my work computer and typing this now. Since I'm the boss I can do what I want.)

I can take a break from work and smoke my pipe when I want to with the understanding that if I do that when I should be working then the work doesn't get done.
I'm a little old fashioned though as I don't believe smoking around computers is a good thing. In the past I had to do some repairs on computers used by cigarette smokers and it wasn't pretty on the inside of them.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Jay: And I thought England wasen't among the active smoking bans countries,now this seem as though if this was like somewhere in the scandinavian sosialist-democrat country, I'm speechless,not knowing what to expect next,been informed,Canada is inventing plain retail packages and Autralia is on the the same,

 

[irishearl]

I've smoked a pipe so long that there was a time when I kept a rack of pipes on my desk at work and would smoke there. Latakia blend whose smell did not appeal to my secretary in the next room.

 

[mso489]

During my working career (retired now) there were always designated smoking areas outside. Mostly, I made the choice to walk rather than smoke, simply because it was more relaxing, and also a spell of solitude in what was often a pretty intense social environment with colleagues, phones, and activity. I remembered a lot of tasks and work-related items while walking, and got good creative ideas, so it was better for my employer too. Early in my working life I was aboard ship (the MSO 489 in my user name) and there was a smoking lamp in all authorized spaces, which was mostly outside, but mostly I smoked ashore, cigars, no pipes. Nails did not appeal to me, and also one or two senior enlisted guys abused cigarette bumming from juniors, so I was glad to evade that.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Mso489/IrisHearl, I'd love been smoker back those days,even when travelling by bus passanegers were allowed to smoke

 

[rodo]

I'm a professor. Smoking a pipe is mandatory.

 

[unkleyoda]

I run service calls for an office machine dealer. I work out of my car, so I can smoke while I drive.

 

[phantomwolf]

I'm a professor. Smoking a pipe is mandatory.

Pontification demands such.

 

[wyfbane]

In the Army, I volunteered to administer all the APFT (Physical fitness tests). This way I could smoke the whole time people were running their two miles. We had a track that was a half mile long and I stood in the middle of the loop so it didn't reach my runners. But I always smoked aro's just in case.
Then I messed up my knee and back and had a profile where I had to walk. I would walk a wooded path that was 2 miles around. I smoked on my walks. It was bliss.
Now I have my mancave and my dog walks, but go to university where they are tobacco nazis. I don't smoke much in the van because it is the primary kid transport machine and I don't want lingering smoke in there for them.
In this aspect of life (and only this), I miss the Army.