This is a good topic! I do not take smoke breaks and would not because I also wouldn't find it relaxing, but for different reasons.

1)My job and position is semi white collar and one of the companies initiatives is "healthy living." They can't make you stop doing things like smoking but they can do little things like withhold a small bit of your pay (Like 50 a month) as an incentive to quit smoking.

2) Due to my position and the kind of people I work with, me taking even 45 mins (even if it was on my lunch break) to smoke one would eventually get back to my managers and interpreted as me not working hard enough.

3) There is definitely a bias against smokers in my company. Cigarette smokers get watched to see how many times they step out and as I said above I know the 30 -45 mins taken to polish off a cigar would bring a negative stigma.

That being said there are two people I know at my job that do take a cigar break on their lunch times. One works in a different capacity ( A bit more blue collar of a position) and has been at that facility for at least 40 years. The other is at a much higher level and has also been on site for a bit. Also to note the later individual does receive criticism for his cigars due to the lingering odor.

(Please note that I do not look down on any line of work be it White or Blue or no collar. I was raised in an environment which has lead me to fully understand that at the end of the day for various reasons called life, you got to get that money however you can. What you do to get it is something you got to live with and answer for.)