smoking... the socially accepted reason to slack off at work!

One of the other guys on the course raised an interesting point while we were both going to get some water this morning.  He pointed out that taking up smoking might almost be worth the negative health effects in order to have an excuse to drop all of your work and hang out in the sun and get some fresh air every hour and a half or so.  If you think about it, smokers are rarely challenged or criticized for going out to smoke several times a day.  It is just an accepted practice that they need to satisfy their addiction.  If a non-smoker were to go and stand outside chatting with other non-smokers for 15 minutes every hour and a half he would be called a slacker… if a smoker does it… he's just a smoker…