[The_Rorschach]

Do what I do, tell 'em you don't smoke on the application, and if they ever notice you huffin through a pack a day, tell you just started. I mean really, what sort of gestapo operation keeps tabs on employee habits.

When I was working for DHI as the system admin, I'd smoke in the 'clean room' despite company policy to the contrary and never saw any flack from it. Hell, a few times the owner would smoke with me and shoot the shit. My life experiences suggest to me that when someone is fired by means of bullshit technicalities, its generally because they are just really not wanted and its the best justification that can be drummed up.