Yeah I still like the smell of cigarette smoke even though I have smoked fewer than 50 cigarettes in my life.  My entire family smoked when I was a kid and now nobody does.  Nobody has gotten lung cancer, and in fact I don't personally know anyone who has gotten lung cancer.  My grandma quit smoking around 1990 after a nice 40-year run and she's still traveling. 

 

What irritates me about smokers isn't the smoke, it's the swagger and all the crap that goes with it.  Banging a pack against your hand when you walk out of the gas station?  I hate that.  Oh, and how smokers get breaks that regular employees don't.  It's like somehow taking a break to check email on your phone is "slacking" but standing back by the loading dock bullshitting with the maintenance guys is necessary. 

 

I used to work in a car dealership during high school/college and at least half the people there took smoke breaks all the time. I would usually just join them and do something just as arbitrary like eat a banana or drink a soda. I never got any crap for it but I guess that depends upon the type of boss man I had.

 

 

The logistics of smoke breaks have evolved over time.  Smokers have been pushed away from front doors to back doors and loading docks, then in some cases completely off the premises.  Hospital workers can sometimes be spotted a block away smoking next to a dumpster.  In Cincinnati I see hospital staff smoking on the "woods" side of Dixmyth Ave. across from Good Sam.  Meanwhile patients often just wheel their iv's into the Dixmyth lobby marquis.  The VA has a dedicated smoking box near the emergency room entrance which is always a beehive of activity.  Near the Cleveland Clinic you will see doctors hiding in the high weeds on abandoned lots across from the campus.

 

Another great smoke break venue is the 5/3 parking garage at their Madisonville office.  You will usually see a small cluster of smokers on the second-highest deck overlooking I-71.  And btw I'm convinced that the motivation for wrecking the skywalk system in DT Cincinnati was in large part motivated by the many smokers who sought refuge there.  At all times in the 90s and early 2000s any view of Fountain Square was embellished with a handful of smokers leaning against the skywalk rail above Vine St. 

 

 

Yeah I still like the smell of cigarette smoke even though I have smoked fewer than 50 cigarettes in my life.  My entire family smoked when I was a kid and now nobody does.  Nobody has gotten lung cancer, and in fact I don't personally know anyone who has gotten lung cancer.  My grandma quit smoking around 1990 after a nice 40-year run and she's still traveling. 

 

What irritates me about smokers isn't the smoke, it's the swagger and all the crap that goes with it.  Banging a pack against your hand when you walk out of the gas station?  I hate that.  Oh, and how smokers get breaks that regular employees don't.  It's like somehow taking a break to check email on your phone is "slacking" but standing back by the loading dock bullshitting with the maintenance guys is necessary. 

 

I used to work in a car dealership during high school/college and at least half the people there took smoke breaks all the time. I would usually just join them and do something just as arbitrary like eat a banana or drink a soda. I never got any crap for it but I guess that depends upon the type of boss man I had.

 

 

The logistics of smoke breaks have evolved over time.  Smokers have been pushed away from front doors to back doors and loading docks, then in some cases completely off the premises.  Hospital workers can sometimes be spotted a block away smoking next to a dumpster.  In Cincinnati I see hospital staff smoking on the "woods" side of Dixmyth Ave. across from Good Sam.  Meanwhile patients often just wheel their iv's into the Dixmyth lobby marquis.  The VA has a dedicated smoking box near the emergency room entrance which is always a beehive of activity.  Near the Cleveland Clinic you will see doctors hiding in the high weeds on abandoned lots across from the campus.

 

Another great smoke break venue is the 5/3 parking garage at their Madisonville office.  You will usually see a small cluster of smokers on the second-highest deck overlooking I-71.  And btw I'm convinced that the motivation for wrecking the skywalk system in DT Cincinnati was in large part motivated by the many smokers who sought refuge there.  At all times in the 90s and early 2000s any view of Fountain Square was embellished with a handful of smokers leaning against the skywalk rail above Vine St. 

 

 

 

And, on a related note, it's incredible how many hospital workers are in poor shape.  Most doctors seem to be in decent shape, but the same can't be said for nurses.

 

 

And btw I'm convinced that the motivation for wrecking the skywalk system in DT Cincinnati was in large part motivated by the many smokers who sought refuge there.  At all times in the 90s and early 2000s any view of Fountain Square was embellished with a handful of smokers leaning against the skywalk rail above Vine St. 

 

 

Skywalks lead to crappy urbanism though and led to behavioral problems among bored teens.

Yeah I still like the smell of cigarette smoke even though I have smoked fewer than 50 cigarettes in my life.  My entire family smoked when I was a kid and now nobody does.  Nobody has gotten lung cancer, and in fact I don't personally know anyone who has gotten lung cancer.  My grandma quit smoking around 1990 after a nice 40-year run and she's still traveling. 

 

What irritates me about smokers isn't the smoke, it's the swagger and all the crap that goes with it.  Banging a pack against your hand when you walk out of the gas station?  I hate that.  Oh, and how smokers get breaks that regular employees don't.  It's like somehow taking a break to check email on your phone is "slacking" but standing back by the loading dock bullshitting with the maintenance guys is necessary. 

 

I used to work in a car dealership during high school/college and at least half the people there took smoke breaks all the time. I would usually just join them and do something just as arbitrary like eat a banana or drink a soda. I never got any crap for it but I guess that depends upon the type of boss man I had.

 

 

The logistics of smoke breaks have evolved over time.  Smokers have been pushed away from front doors to back doors and loading docks, then in some cases completely off the premises.  Hospital workers can sometimes be spotted a block away smoking next to a dumpster.  In Cincinnati I see hospital staff smoking on the "woods" side of Dixmyth Ave. across from Good Sam.  Meanwhile patients often just wheel their iv's into the Dixmyth lobby marquis.  The VA has a dedicated smoking box near the emergency room entrance which is always a beehive of activity.  Near the Cleveland Clinic you will see doctors hiding in the high weeds on abandoned lots across from the campus.

 

Another great smoke break venue is the 5/3 parking garage at their Madisonville office.  You will usually see a small cluster of smokers on the second-highest deck overlooking I-71.  And btw I'm convinced that the motivation for wrecking the skywalk system in DT Cincinnati was in large part motivated by the many smokers who sought refuge there.  At all times in the 90s and early 2000s any view of Fountain Square was embellished with a handful of smokers leaning against the skywalk rail above Vine St. 

 

 

I'm actually amazed at how few smokers you see in downtown Cincinnati the past few years. There are a few hotspots here and there, usually in front of vacant storefronts or buildings. There's a building on west Fourth near Plum that is vacant and has a recessed, covered storefront that has at least 4 smokers hanging out in it at all times between 9-5 (for some reason Uptown Rentals owns the building). Every once in awhile I'll see someone on Fountain Square get yelled at for smoking, too, but for the most part smokers are few and far between.

Yeah I still like the smell of cigarette smoke even though I have smoked fewer than 50 cigarettes in my life.  My entire family smoked when I was a kid and now nobody does.  Nobody has gotten lung cancer, and in fact I don't personally know anyone who has gotten lung cancer.  My grandma quit smoking around 1990 after a nice 40-year run and she's still traveling. 

 

What irritates me about smokers isn't the smoke, it's the swagger and all the crap that goes with it.  Banging a pack against your hand when you walk out of the gas station?  I hate that.  Oh, and how smokers get breaks that regular employees don't.  It's like somehow taking a break to check email on your phone is "slacking" but standing back by the loading dock bullshitting with the maintenance guys is necessary. 

 

I used to work in a car dealership during high school/college and at least half the people there took smoke breaks all the time. I would usually just join them and do something just as arbitrary like eat a banana or drink a soda. I never got any crap for it but I guess that depends upon the type of boss man I had.

 

 

The logistics of smoke breaks have evolved over time.  Smokers have been pushed away from front doors to back doors and loading docks, then in some cases completely off the premises.  Hospital workers can sometimes be spotted a block away smoking next to a dumpster.  In Cincinnati I see hospital staff smoking on the "woods" side of Dixmyth Ave. across from Good Sam.  Meanwhile patients often just wheel their iv's into the Dixmyth lobby marquis.  The VA has a dedicated smoking box near the emergency room entrance which is always a beehive of activity.  Near the Cleveland Clinic you will see doctors hiding in the high weeds on abandoned lots across from the campus.

 

Another great smoke break venue is the 5/3 parking garage at their Madisonville office.  You will usually see a small cluster of smokers on the second-highest deck overlooking I-71.  And btw I'm convinced that the motivation for wrecking the skywalk system in DT Cincinnati was in large part motivated by the many smokers who sought refuge there.  At all times in the 90s and early 2000s any view of Fountain Square was embellished with a handful of smokers leaning against the skywalk rail above Vine St. 

 

 

 

And, on a related note, it's incredible how many hospital workers are in poor shape.  Most doctors seem to be in decent shape, but the same can't be said for nurses.

 

 

Nurses are more likely to be working multiple jobs and/or ridiculous hours, and eating on the run.

 

The anti-smoking zealots promote the theory that "second hand smoke" at any concentration is so horrible because it gives them a Cause that places them above normal busybodyism.  I used to work in occupational safety and the very premise is almost offensive.  It's like saying volume shouldn't matter to an audiologist, or voltage to an electrician.

i think vaping has resolved a lot of the indoor bar smoking issues for everyone. or at least somewhat. i really dk anything about vaping re pricing and the like, but i see a lot of it. i also see as many vape shops now as tobacco shops, or they have changed over their advertising if they do both. however, smokes are still more popular on the street, but i do see vapers walking along here and there too.

i think vaping has resolved a lot of the indoor bar smoking issues for everyone. or at least somewhat. i really dk anything about vaping re pricing and the like, but i see a lot of it. i also see as many vape shops now as tobacco shops, or they have changed over their advertising if they do both. however, smokes are still more popular on the street, but i do see vapers walking along here and there too.

 

Gives new meaning to this classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP_hKDpXTug