>> What was evident from those that still partake was that on return they carried the
>> smell with them and even now you do notice if someone has had a cigarette.
>> Did I really smell like that?
Being in a smoking room or a smoky pub certainly made your clothes stink. Less so if you just have one yourself out of doors as they do now.
The smell also never went from a cellular office occupied by a smoker. It had been banned in all offices for several years when a group of us were in a room once occupied by a head of branch notorious for her chain smoking. The computer guys had the carpet up for cabling - as soon as it/its underlay were moved there was a blast of Rothman's best.
Much later, c2002, I worked for a short time in what must have been one of the last offices to permit smoking. Building was the former HQ of GKN and our floor was nearly all cellular offices. Several staff members and the Quango chairman, a former Cabinet Minister who lived on cigs and coffee, all smoked.
They say smell is the sense most given to evoking memories. Walking through the door on a morning took me straight back to being taken into work by my Dad when I was about 5.
At the time I started a move to a newly refurbed block in Chancery Lane was already set. The boss banned smoking and everybody who smoked, including the Chairman, went to the smoking room.
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