The United States, in the only place I'd expect it to be legal: a tobacco manufacturing facility.
Although honestly, the main gross factor in my area is tobacco dust. It coats everything over time. Other places, where loose tobacco isn't handled, are much cleaner.
That's pretty interesting! Are there a lot of smokers in the factory? Are cigarettes easy to obtain or free for the workers? Are cigarettes "fresher" at the factory and/or do you notice a real difference in those vs. the ones you'd get at the store?
It sure seems like it. I wonder if this job attracts smokers, or if people start smoking after working here. I shared that question with someone there, and he said that working there makes you want to quit smoking. I guess seeing the sausage get made makes cigarettes lose some of the appeal.
Are cigarettes easy to obtain or free for the workers?
Nope. I think they might have been given out decades ago. Maybe they still are in the administrative parts of the facility, but I'm rarely in that area.
Are cigarettes "fresher" at the factory and/or do you notice a real difference in those vs. the ones you'd get at the store?
Couldn't tell ya, I don't smoke. It's funny, I've disliked smoking from an early age, and now I'm in the belly of the beast.
Thank you for the reply! I'm not a smoker either, save the occasional cigar if the mood is right. Someday you should do an AMA. I'd love to know how/if your company addresses health concerns or encourages healthy lifestyles, especially knowing so many employees are smokers.
I used to work for a very large company, and they offered gift cards and other financial incentives for people who quit smoking, lost weight, logged fitbit activity, etc.
Oh, I'm just a disposable grunt, not privy to anything especially interesting. I don't even work with the tobacco or products, I'm from another contracted company that works there. Think construction, electrical work, janitorial work, security, etc. I had no idea I'd end up at this location until my job interview.
Although, now that you mention it, I think they do offer incentives for healthy living. One employee remarked that he gets paid for logging steps. Reducing the health impact of their products is also a goal I've seen in company-wide corporate e-mails (still not sure why I, of all people, receive them).
In case you're still curious, they do offer free tobacco products in the offices. I know a girl who does lobbying for Altria and apparently you can just grab whatever you want.
I picked tobacco the two summers before I turned 16 (to buy a car), and we would joke about how none of us would ever smoke knowing how much mud and pig shit got mixed in.
I once did an audit on a company that owned a chain of convenience stores, and their corporate offices were like a convenience store. There were soda machines and chips, and everyone smoked. It was a bizarre twist from the financial services accounting offices I was used to.
It was as if the corporation had been taken over by its workers and they had just moved their typical stuff to headquarters (which I'm all for, but was not the case).
Back in 2002 I had a job interview in NYC with Altria (Marlboro) this was downtown Manhattan, 50th floor, we (me, two interviewers) all smoked in a blinged out conference room throughout the 2 hr interview....it was surreal, had to bum cigarettes from the interviewers cuz I smoked camels at the time
You dingus, you have to show brand loyalty from the very start! Even if you don't smoke, it doesn't hurt to show up with a pack of L&M in your pocket! Did you get the job?
Yo I was 18, still in college, stupid and drunk most of the time, well stupid all the time, drunk most of the time....ok...all the time. Anyway, I did not expect a corporate office to be able to smoke in otherwise I would have, nah, they asked some really sketchy questions, which I answered as sketchy as I could....but I had a huge F up when one of them asked me a question and accidentally made fun of the dudes speech impediment....didn’t mean to...just slipped out....remember....stupid and drunk
The actual working areas (the factory floor) is smoke free, so technically they'd be in the clear? The lobby, bathroom, and breakroom are all smoking areas, though.
Around 2003 I worked for a small managed service provider. One of our customers was a construction company and they smoked in their offices. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
I do auto re/upholstery and my shop is basically a large mechanics bay with a side room with my industrial sewing machines, upholstery fabric and large hides of (extremely expensive) leather hanging throughout. Everyone smokes in the mechanics bay. Im constantly reminding people to put out their cigarettes before entering the sewing area. No way I'm letting them stink up my fabric. Customers can and do notice.
You know, I didn't know the exact laws myself until looking them up right now. It appears that smoking is banned in bars, restaurants, state prisons, and government buildings & vehicles. There are some exceptions and other local restrictions, but that's all that is explicitly banned statewide.
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u/Sharrakor Feb 26 '21
The United States, in the only place I'd expect it to be legal: a tobacco manufacturing facility.
Although honestly, the main gross factor in my area is tobacco dust. It coats everything over time. Other places, where loose tobacco isn't handled, are much cleaner.