Was smoking in the office allowed as late as the early 90s? (paid, money)

[bizcuit]

The office I was working in, in the early '90s had people openly smoking in cubicles. They also had onsite smoking rooms where the smokers could go and socialize. Around the mid '90s they passed a rule at the company that smoking in open areas was forbidden, but was still allowed in offices. However, if there were complaints, the smoking had to stop. I found that rule particularly moronic because, who usually had the offices? The boss. Who would be the people sitting in the cubicles around the office who might want to complain? The underlings. Not sure when the rule went into effect banning smoking for the all inside areas of the company, maybe the late '90s.

I happily work at a campus that is completely smoke-free these days.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by Robert20170

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I can remember my first airplane trip as a child and people smoking on board in the late 60's. Can you imagine that now?

Smoking on planes was still going on in the late 80s and early 90s.


#grodytothemax

[Mid America Lifer]

Back in the 1960's, my mother had a friend, Velma, who worked in an office at Boeing, and who was fired on grounds of "intolerance" because she complained about the cigarette smoke!

The point being, times have changed a lot since then!

[blueherons]

Not where I worked but I do remember smoking on an airplane in 1994 on a trip to Mexico. The US airlines had already banned smoking but this was a Mexican airline.

[earslikeacat]

Commuter trains in Chicago had a smoking car both morning and evening rush hours, and evening rush hour had a bar car as well.
This goes back to the late 90's.
I remember my mom smoking on airplanes, in restaurants and even stores had no rules.

[reneeh63]

I was in grad school in 1990 and smoked in my shared office (2 others) - no one said a word about it.

[arjay57]

It was allowed where I worked. But it was sort on the way out.

[steiconi]

I remember attending meetings in "smoke filled rooms" yuck. that was in the '80s.

I heard that one way they could tell an airplane had an airleak in the cabin was to look for nicotine stains on the fuselage. And I loved that the smoking section was just the back of the plane, with no division. That went on well into the '80s.

[artillery77]

I worked in skyscrapers in the late 90's in Chicago. Usually the buildings were the ones who put the ban on the smoking, likely for insurance purposes. If we were working late, a few people had ashtrays hidden away and a smoke was rare, and hidden, but everyone used to speak of smoking right at their desk.

It was a bit of shock when I was working in Germany in 10 years later and we could smoke right at the office, and there was even a vending machine for smokes. I thought it was rather novel...and then that was banned across the whole country.

[s1alker]

Yup that was back in the good old days before we headed towards a European style nanny state model.