>based on the anecdotal evidence that employees who smoke tend to spend more time together. We find that when male employees who smoke switch to male managers w

>based on the anecdotal evidence that employees who smoke tend to spend more time together. We find that when male employees who smoke switch to male managers who smoke, they spend more of their breaks with their managers and are promoted faster in the following years. One possible subtext of this is that men are much more susceptible to promoting those that befriend them than anything else. Sure punches a hole in the old (but not necessarily correct!) cultural adage that women are predominantly the approval-seeking gender.