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withered_preacher
Just about remember people smoking on the back of the top deck.
TBH, other than working in a kitchen, I've never had a job where you wouldn't have been able to take a quick break as you pleased so I never got why non-smokers always got their knickers in a twist about it. Now I'm an ex-smoker I still don't get it. It's like the kids at school who got worked up by you doing something against the rules that they could have just as easily done had they stopped wetting themselves about the whole thing.
Idk what it's like now but when I was young absolutely everyone in the restaurant trade smoked, so a fag break was simply a recognised sub 10min break in a known location. That way whoever was in charge could always call you back in easily, or at least easily see how much longer you'd be.
When I still worked in an office my smoking colleagues had all moved on to vaping so, cigarette breaks just became exhaling fat clouds while reading reddit and the virgin-vaping memes I sent them. I really used to enjoy going out to our balcony and smoking while either discussing work or just chatting shit.