When we lived near Seattle, my wife worked for a while at HP, where she
heard this story. Some visitors from Germany were visiting HP, and when
one of them saw the clusters of smokers outside, who were mostly women,
he said to his HP host, “Wow! Does HP really provide hookers for their
workers?”
Just an opposing data point for your comment “very few professional
smoke.” You neglected the oldest profession.
—Barry
On 13 Sep 2020, at 22:21, Frank Wimberly wrote:
My 56 year-old daughter smokes cigarettes. She is the head Latin
teacher at an elite boarding school in upstate New York. I ask her
why she smokes and I point out that most Latin teachers don't. It
may be classist but it seems to me that very few professionals
smoke. She says, "Believe me, I know". Since most places make you
go outside to smoke she meets all the smokers. So, this unhealthy
activity leads to mixing. Unless she's the only teacher who smokes,
which is possible.
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