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Oh, I think virtually all companies (except for some really tiny ones) do that, Willow. Most limit you to two "coffee" breaks plus one lunch, and most don't make too many rules about what you do on those breaks, except drinking alcohol. I only replied to that because I think you misinterpreted his post.
I think his point was that society has continued to squirrel away smokers into smaller and smaller places. No airline wanted to be the first to eliminate smoking, though they were happy to consign them to the "back of the plane", (seems it is OK to force some minorities to ride in the back...) but if the government stepped in and forced the issue, the airlines didn't have to worry about losing smoking passengers to airlines specifically catering to smokers, since the long arm of government would be used to prevent the formation of companies or business plans that would allow smoking.
Society continues to use laws to specify smaller and smaller smoking areas in restaurants, rather than letting the number of customers determine the split. Gummint continues to declare more and more private businesses smoke-free, will of the owner of the company be damned.
And my point was merely that we are more tolerant of people who are committing acts that the gov't has declared illegal than those who commit acts which have somehow escaped being labelled as illegal yet.
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