Current(or previous if retired) job/ career and are you allowed to smoke?

BlueCollarBastard · March 2018

I work at a tapered roller bearing manufacturer. Going on 8 years. I'm a setter/ operator. I set the machines up and run them. The plant I work at is tobacco free so no go on the enjoyment.

judandhispipe · March 2018

When I first went out into the work force, of course, you could smoke at work. I was at the Kmart corporation in IT here in metro Detroit when the place went smoke-free. (It may have been at that time you could only smoke if you had a private office; I don't recall.) There was a big, old, ramnbling senior systems analyst who was famous for almost always having a pipe or cigar in his mouth. When the policy was announced at his team meeting, a friend on his team reported that he said something like, "I am honored that the company is so concerned with my health that they are forcing me to quit smoking. What I want to know is - when are they going to quit selling it in the stores?"
(I'll bet they didn't start selling tobacco 'til old Mr Kresge stepped down. He was an old-school Methodist who didn't hold with such things.)

PhilosoPiper · March 2018

I am currently employed as an associate pastor, as well as for the family business. The bulk of my work is done from home, I smoke just about every day during my self appointed lunch hour from my front porch.

motie2 · March 2018

Retired clergyman since 2013. Smoking was allowed in the office, but I was in my pipe smoking hiatus which lasted from the mid '80's until the summer of 2016. I began pipe smoking in 1964 in seminary. All the cool guys were smoking pipes, so in a futile attempt to be "hip" I started with OTC aromatics, but quickly switched to English blends and VaPers.

These days, I'm back to (better) aromatics, like Barbados Plantation and Lane VBC.

PappyJoe · March 2018

Self-employed as a print advertising designer since 2006. I work at home. I don't smoke around my computers but can stop and smoke when I want to. Worked for a printing company for 10 years before starting my own business. Had my own office and would sit and smoke cigars or an occasional pipe in the office or when out fishing on assignment for my magazine. Retired from the Coast Guard in 1993 before all the smoking bans got ridiculous. Used to smoke my pipe in the office occasionally.

Kmhartle · March 2018

I was self employed for over 20 years. In the 80's and early 90's, there was a smoking lounge in a funeral home I owned. NY state laws nixed that. Prior to that, I worked at a funeral home in Alaska that allowed smoking in the offices. That's where I first started my pipe smoking.

Bloodhound61 · March 2018

Currently working out of the house and have the luxury of being able to when I want....got to say, I do like that.

Charles · March 2018

I am a defense litigation paralegal. I work in a high-rise office building in center city, Phila, PA where smoking is prohibited not only in all buildings but also within 25-feet of the exterior entries of all buildings.

buflosab · March 2018

Worked for the School Board in Florida,at first it was ok to smoke, then it was a designated spot,and then it was not allowed at all. Which was ok, we just improvised.Smoking inside any buildings in Florida has been virtually eliminated,that is why when I visited DC and found a tobacco store in the Pentagon City mall and people were smoking I was stunned to say the least.

Woodsman · April 2018

Field Service Engineer, I couldn't smoke in the Computer Rooms and most buildings but, I always had the long drives and most colleges allowed Pipe Smoking.

jdk5hh · April 2018

I work from home, so I’ll sit out in the man cave working on the laptop & smoke, or I’ll head to the Country Squire once or twice a week & work there.

ghostsofpompeii · April 2018

It all changed in the late 90s'. And when you're working in a smoke filled environment like a steel mill, and they don't allow smoking, you know the end of smoking on the job is going the way of the dinosaur.

jim102864 · April 2018

I'm a claim manager for an insurance company in Connecticut, the state where the lights are turned off promptly at 7 pm. Also known as "The Least Fun State" or the "Taxes? We Got Taxes!" state. I started out working for a small mutual insurance company in 1987 when smoking was allowed at one's desk. That lasted about 2 years and boom, no more smoking. I enjoy Wednesdays and Fridays when I work from home and smoke as many bowls as I please all day long...then try to cover up my crime before my wife gets home.

Oddjob27 · April 2018

I'm a marketing manager for a church extension fund. Basically provides congregations with loans and investments. But that being said, I'm in California. There ain't any smoking here allowed basically.... So the backyard will have to do.

motie2 · April 2018

@Oddjob27 -- You wrote: <<Basically provides congregations with loans and investments.>> Boy, I could have used your services back when I was in my pulpit. I basically kept the congregation afloat by giving up $25,00.00 of my salary per year for my final three years there. When I retired, the congregation had to go to part-time clergy. The first one lasted one year. The second lasted one year, and the third has been there for two and a half. If they could have paid me my contractually agreed upon salary, I would not have retired, as I am a fairly vigorous 71 year old.... except for the damn sciatica.....

Jayhawk422 · April 2018

I work in the trucking industry for sales. My office doesn’t have a smoking ban but is not int the area where you could enjoy a pipe or cigar. I am mostly in my car and as much as I would like to, I don’t smoke in it due to having to take clients out in it. Also my company knows I smoke cigars and a pipe they just ask I don’t smell like it while working, since some prospective clients may not appreciate the smell as much as we do!

motie2 · April 2018

@Jayhawk422
Whereas I would not take a cigar from Dick Afflis (pictured elsewhere) I hate the smell of cigars. My father, of blessed memory, smoked four packs of Camels a day. I must have reeked as a child, sitting in the car wintertime, with the windows rolled up. That was bad enough, but after the docs removed one of his lungs (not because of the smoking, but because he caught Johnny Bench disease, a fungal infection that the Reds catcher famously had) he switched to cigars, which stank. So I empathize with your firm's clients.

jfreedy · April 2018

I'm a management consultant and office from my home. So, like you other self-employed types, have the ability to smoke "at work" any time I want. That said, I always shower and use mouthwash if I'm going to be meeting with clients.

Anthony · April 2018

Well I'm 60 now and I am in my second career, though I have always been self employed. My first career I spent 27 years in the fashion industry, I started in 1976 always in the Chicago area. Then we smoked every where, from getting a haircut to restaurant's, to offices to homes. Then the 90's hit , and it became criminal, and you could only smoke outside and 50 feet from the door. In 2004 I became a financial consultant with Thrivent Financial, and even though it's still my own office we can't smoke here either. so now days it's my screen room, yard or porch, and only a few times a week, but that's ok I enjoy my pipe more it's like a special occasion and I pay attention to it more. So it's more a time of relaxation and contemplation

Kmhartle · April 2018

@Anthony Even back in the 80's the bank I used in rural Western New York had a nice standing floor ashtray at each teller window. Of course, you could also smoke on airplanes then too.

Anthony · April 2018

Kmhartle, So true on the airplanes as well. Funny you mention the bank in the Late 70s my wife started her career in Trust at The Northern Trust here in Chicago a very old and distinguished Bank and Trust, everyone there had a white onyx ash tray on their desks, it's the size of a large dinner plate. We still have her's. LOL

pipeman83 · April 2018

@Kmhartle, are you from Western New York, if so, where?

Kmhartle · April 2018

@pipeman83 I'm a Kansas resident right now but I hail from the Olean, NY area originally.

Mangoandy · April 2018

Dentist out here in CA. Own my own practice and my own building. As soon as the last patient leaves I light up my pipe in my private office (with exhaust fan). The staff says my private office smells like tobacco. I try not to smoke anything too strong.
It's the benefit of owning my own place and doing what I want.

pipeman83 · April 2018

@Kmhartle, what a coincidence, that was my mother's hometown, she was born in Angelica, but then they moved to Olean, N.8th. St., I still have cousins that live there. Small World!

RockyMountainBriar · April 2018

Electronics Bench Technician, Technical Services Manager. I work on gaming machines here in Montana, electronic Keno, Poker and Reel games (we can’t call Reel Games slot machines, slots are against the law in Montana

RockyMountainBriar · April 2018

Hmm, some of the post “went away”????
As I was saying, Smoking was allowed at my place of work until Montana passed the clean air act in 2005. People could still smoke in bars, casinos and restaurants until 2009 when they to were no longer exempt. This March, another addition to the ban went into effect, no smoking within 20 feet of any entrance, widow, or opening of a public building. Since I only started smoking in 2012, I have never been able to smoke at work. I don’t think I would have anyway.

Kmhartle · April 2018

@pipeman83. Wow! It really is a small world! There's a good chance I may know your cousins. I owned a business in Olean for many years. I'm also familiar with Angelica. A nice, quaint little town!

pipeman83 · April 2018

@Kmhartle, Yes it is! I will PM you with their names.

thebadgerpiper · April 2018

The only place I've worked at that allowed smoking was a grocery store in Missouri. They had a smoking room that stank of cigarettes that the smokers went to during their breaks. I didn't smoke a pipe then, but if I had, I probably wouldn't have smoked my pipe there.

jim102864 · April 2018

Today and Friday are the only days I can work and smoke my pipe. One benefit of working from home two days a week.

Current(or previous if retired) job/ career and are you allowed to smoke?

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