{"id":2534,"date":"2014-10-24T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2014-10-24T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T19:16:03","slug":"oh-too-funny-r-j-reynolds-to-ban-smoking-in-its-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2534","title":{"rendered":"Oh, too funny, R.J. Reynolds to ban smoking in its properties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Too, too funny…. R.J. Reynolds, makers of Camel and, soon-to-be makers of Newport cigarettes, which for years fought smoking bans tooth and nail (often times through tavern associations and other fronts), will be banning smoking in its buildings,<\/a> except for specially designated “smoking rooms.” (Wonder if they will be glass rooms like at the airport in Salt Lake City?)<\/p>\n

I think it’s funny they’re “phasing it in,” to not disrupt their smoking employees too much. First smoking will be banned in conference rooms and elevators in their buildings in North Carolina, New Mexico and Tennessee, but you can still smoke in hallways and personal offices (Interesting … according to my information, New Mexico bans smoking in all workplaces — so this article may have overlooked that. You can still smoke in some workplaces in N.C. Tennessee doesn’t have any statewide law.). Anyway, I digress. By, 2016, you will only be able to smoke in R.J. Reynolds buildings in designated smoking rooms.<\/p>\n

Interesting, again … Reynolds already bans smoking in its factories and cafeterias.<\/p>\n

According to Reynolds smokesman (err, spokesman) David Howard:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognize that indoors restrictions are the norm today, so most people expect a smoke free business environment,\u201d Reynolds American spokesman David Howard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe respect the rights and personal choices of employees who choose to smoke or use other tobacco products and those who don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We are simply better aligning our tobacco use policies with the realities of what we\u2019re seeing in the general public today,\u201d he said. (Yeah, a reality that Reynolds fought to the death for nearly 20 years in countless smokefree workplace battles around the country.)<\/p>\n

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Too, too funny…. R.J. Reynolds, makers of Camel and, soon-to-be makers of Newport cigarettes, which for years fought smoking bans tooth and nail (often times through tavern associations and other fronts), will be banning smoking in its buildings, except for specially designated “smoking rooms.” (Wonder if they will be glass rooms like at the airport … Continue reading Oh, too funny, R.J. 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