>>>What's worse about no-smoking buildings is that you have to run the gauntlet of the pariahs when you leave and it's quite disgusting (this is from a "partial" smoker - 'stan' wh'amsayin'?)
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>>I actually hate that too. Many places in the US now ban smoking within 50 feet of a building's entrance.
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>>At my office complex, management removed the conveniently (and remotely) placed ash trays and created several centrally located "smoking areas". We measured. Each of the new designated areas is actually CLOSER to entrances and open windows than the old locations, and now the smoke is more condensed because there are fewer locations.
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>>But they actually put us in prime locations alongside the ponds that ring the property so none of US are complaining!
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>>No sense.
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>In my office building the two designated smoking spots are the side entrances. Not sure what the rules are but the smokers congregate about 3 feet from the exit doors, especially this time of year. You're running the gauntlet if you come in that way.

There's a theatre in Brighton with no smoking policy in the bar and foyer, etc. During the intermission the smell of concentrated baccy smoke drifting back in from the front door is digusting and if you have to pass through it going in or out it nearly makes you gag. And this is froom a sometime smoker.