Of course it's common sense, but when we get Turino boasting about how brave he is, smoking wherever he wants to, Silverboy complaining about morning classes, and insulting his T/As, perhaps it's time for a little reminder.

I can only speak for myself,not for Silverboy.
I didn't go into enough detail because I thought you had the common sense to realize that my foreign colleagues and I were given permission to smoke in an office between classes.
In fact,that privilege had been granted before I arrived on the scene there.
But because there were so many louwai teaching there on L's,who presumably had taken a risk coming to China on L's because they couldn't get job offers from China while in their homelands,they felt very insecure in the knowledge that time on their L's was running out,and the TC would ditch the least effective teachers among them,making an excuse that they couldn't get F's or Z's for them!
So,they refrained from smoking in that office.But I didn't,and I needn't have.I already had a job elsewhere,and there was no problem with my visa running out.No need for me to care whether I would be weeded out there later for whatever reason!
Got it?End of discussion re smoking!