"Hey, smoke up, Johnny!"

A mate of mine started smoking when he was in the army because, as he tells it, you couldn't have a regular smoke break unless you were a smoker. I've 9-to-5-ed in a few high-rises in my time. Colleagues who smoked would have to catch the lift down, find a spot away from the building (and passing foot traffic) to enjoy their durry, then catch the lift back up. If the lifts were busy, this might take 15-20 minutes. I wonder if anyone took up coffin nails primarily to escape the office a coupla extra times during the day.