Since FMC apprentice has gone quite, I would like to inform him, that not long ago (a month or so) three Captains were let go beacuse they were smoking. All three times they were reported through the anonymous safety report system, and guess what, they were not from the middle east, or from the eastern countries. They were Western Europeans, and the company took the hard stance and they are not with us any longer. Smoking on board is not a common practice, and I would say that it is less than 10 guys out of 800 pilots who smoke. Even these guys are not smoking anymore as they are proffesionals and they obey the FCIs.
JP
FMC apprentice I think now that we have informed pprune about Ryanair's Stance on this matter, and since you can confirm it internaly, next time you have an issue you will consider going the proper way and using the correct chanels. This of course requires that you are a man with, honour, character and dignity.