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The Smoke Break Is Dying. What Comes Next Says a Lot About How We Work Now.
The designated smoking area outside the average UK office has become one of the more forlorn corners of British working life. A small knot of people, often apologetic, always cold, stepping away from a building that increasingly makes them feel unwelcome. The smoke break was once a social ritual. It is now, for many, just an inconvenience they cannot quite shake.
The decline of the smoke breakThe Health Act 2006 banned smoking in enclosed workplaces and, in doing so, did not so much end the smoke break as exile it. Smokers adapted. They gathered at building entrances, in car...



























