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Originally Posted by projectself
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wow... worker productivity? that's quite the odd stance. i recently quit smoking myself, but regardless, i dont see how it ever made me inferior to the rest of the employees in my office.
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Yes, worker productivity. When you were smoking, how many smoke breaks did you take a day? And how long was each of these breaks? Be honest, and maybe you can start to see what I am getting at. In my building, every time I walk around the corner to the copier, I see the same 3-5 people standing outside smoking. So say they smoke 12 cigarettes in the average work day. And say that the time for each cigarette is 5 minutes. That adds up to an hour each day that is spent smoking, not working.
Now you can make all the arguements you want about non-smokers taking company time to do other non-smoking related activities. Or you can try to convince someone that the smoker is more productive when he gets back to his work because of the drug he has just ingested, but let's get real. Smokers, smoke. They take more breaks to smoke. They socialize when they smoke. They do not work when they smoke. Hence, smokers have lower productivity than non-smokers. I am not making generalizations, I am speaking from personal experience.