J. D. Wallovits and Roger Gual, Spain, 2002

Film series 'El Pacer de fumar: Adicción y negocio' (The pleasure of smoking: addiction and business)

Smoking Room

Presented by Antonio Belda, Psychologist of the Unit for Community Prevention of Addictive behaviours of the Costera-Canal (Xátiva), and Paula de Felipe, member of the Cinema Club of the University of Valencia.

Synopsis:

The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to prohibit smoking inside the offices. From now on, who wish to smoke in working hours, should do it in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office that consists mostly of men, decides to gather signatures for what he considers unfair. What Ramirez aims is that an empty office could be used as a “Smoking Room”. Apparently, everyone agrees and support him, however, at the moment of truth, all of them will start to use all type of excuses to avoid to be in the list; in contrast, none will have problems to join another list, a list for forming a team to play a football match against the employees of another office.