If I were an employer, smoking wouldn't be allowed inside or around my store, so I'd never hire smokers who would need smoke breaks.

Never bothered me unless they take an extended break, but that's not limited to smokers.

That's said it'd be pretty difficult to find time to smoke in my workplace.

They get extra breaks just because the smoke? That seems strange. Back when I worked retail we could only smoke on our breaks which were the same mandated ones everyone else had

Basically came here to say this. Smokers shouldn't get a privilege over non-smokers.

I work in an office and people who smoke are kind of looked down on so a lot of people won't take a smoke break, they'll just wait until they go to lunch.

I think they should all be encouraged to stop, so no smoke breaks for them

My manager when i worked at kfc just let us smoke in the utilty room or in the restrooms aftee the lobby closed.

Wtf I've never even heard of this

Why would they allow this

It is stupid they allow that.

You shouldn't be allowed. If they get breaks that often, I should too.

Smokers shouldn't get extra breaks because of their bad habit. If they get an extra break, so should everyone else. They can smoke during their regular breaks, which thankfully is the company policy where I work.

I don't care as long as they smoke outside and I can take breaks when I need to without issue.

Yep there's even rights about it

I despise smokers. It smells horrible, your clothes smell horrible when u are in company of smokers. For example in military they are allowed to have extra pauses in my country. Lots of people even pick up this bad habit because of that kind of unfair treatment. Luckily workplace stuff has improved. I was forced to be passive smoker for like 5 years before new law told to build seperate places for them where they could go and smoke during the pauses.

If everyone is entitled to the same break then it's fine.
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I remember I was going into a Denny's with family friends and a worker came out to smoke in the parking lot and then someone else (manager I assume) came out and told him he couldn't do that

Shouldn't be allowed. Smoking in all public places should be banned. Do it in your bedroom.

The concept is unfair, they're practically being rewarded for smoking.

For my case personally, it kinda works out nice. There's only 1 person I work with at a time, so whenever he goes out for his smoke break (which is literally at least once every hour, dude must smoke a pack a day) I just pull out my phone and chill. If he gets a break, I get a break.

Granted though, I have literally the easiest job in the world and half the time I'm just sitting there doing nothing so I can't really complain

everyone should have more breaks, they're important

It's different if you work in retail vs in an office. In retail, timing is more of an issue as you have a constant flow of people. Breaks do need to be regulated across the staff.

In an office, it doesn't really matter if someone steps out to grab a coffee or smoke a cigarette.

Besides, it's been my experience that those who are busy keeping track of who's taking breaks when are usually not doing much themselves to begin with.