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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">When we lived near Seattle, my wife worked for a while at HP, where she heard this story. Some visitors from Germany were visiting HP, and when one of them saw the clusters of smokers outside, who were mostly women, he said to his HP host, “Wow! Does HP really provide hookers for their workers?”</p>
<p dir="auto">Just an opposing data point for your comment “very few professional smoke.” You neglected the oldest profession.</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 13 Sep 2020, at 22:21, Frank Wimberly wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">My 56 year-old daughter smokes cigarettes. She is the head Latin teacher at an elite boarding school in upstate New York. I ask her why she smokes and I point out that most Latin teachers don't. It may be classist but it seems to me that very few professionals smoke. She says, "Believe me, I know". Since most places make you go outside to smoke she meets all the smokers. So, this unhealthy activity leads to mixing. Unless she's the only teacher who smokes, which is possible.</p>
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