Smoking is a waste of employers time and money, like social networks.

The policy in my company, so long as i dont see you smoking or smell it, or catch you wasting my customers money while standing around smoking, being paid by the hour, i dont really care how you get your puff in.

Nobody is allowed to smoke near my workshop, due to fire hazard, because of all the wood chippings, it would result in instant dismisal , if caught, and if the law tells me i cant fire a person beacause of it, life would become such a miserable place at work.

And yes i was a smoker for 10+ years.