[kimi]

Not really related, but this made me think of a funny episode I have witnessed.

After university, I had to have one year of civil service, and I ended up in a structure which patients were mentally retarded and/or light psychiatric disorders.

We would often work outside, tending the garden, planting flowers and whatnot, and some of the patients used to smoke.

Some big honcho saw this and decided that it was not a good sight, seeing them work with a cigarette in their mouth; on the other hand, they would want to have a smoke every once in a while, so it was decided that it would be more dignified to have officially sanctioned cigarette breaks.

The results? well, as it was (by definition) a "cigarette break", everybody wanted one, so all of them started smoking....