Nat High investigates a three pipe problem. But it doesn't have to be this way. We're all familiar with the sight of banished smokers huddled around fire exits outside shops, factories and offices. Shivering in the cold, they look like rabbits waiting to hurl themselves under a passing car.
Smokers band together, united in their addiction.
Unless you work for a tobacco company, in which case it's practically compulsory. Not in my lungs, please At a time when employers would kill for more harmony in the workplace, they instead erect smoke screens. The 'us' and 'them' culture that once divided suits from workers now separates smokers from their co-workers. Each side brings its own ammunition to the fight. This isn't, of course, strictly true.