I despise smoking. Won't say I despise smokers, hate the sin, not the sinner.
We have hired a contract associate at work, which I did not know at first, is a smoker. Others in the office are complaining. He goes outside into the parking lot to smoke, but his clothes and his breath reeeeeeks! He stinks! He's a great fellow, sharp as a tack. But, just yesterday we were at a meeting and a group of us were talking and I noticed several were creating distance between themselves and him. He turned toward me to say something and his breath......sheeesh!
A manager two rungs above me asked me recently when this guy's contract expires. I told him. He said, can't you find a non-smoker who can do this job?
Smokers, especially heavy smokers, have no idea how much they stink. You can tell them, most will acknowledge it to some extent, but they still are clueless just how bad it is. New laws have pretty much segregated smokers, and that's good. But their clothes, breath, cars, houses! Ugh!