Keir Starmer’s outdoor smoking ban will kill flirting as we know it

Plus, let’s not get all LinkedIn about it, but think of all the lost networking. Jobs, shared email addresses, “Oh, you know ****? I worked with her for years.” Revealing yourself as a smoker gives up a level of professionalism and invites someone in. They make a big joke of a season five episode of Friends, “The One Where Rachel Smokes,” but it’s a tried and true method of bonding, even for this day.