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They are the least-thought out public spaces in Ottawa and yet they are used hundreds of thousands of times in a day. Many people spend more time in and around them them per day than they do with their families. The spaces are all improvised on a case-by-case basis yet every building has one, and no two are the exactly same.<\/p>\n

They are, of course, the smoking areas. Arising as a necessity from mid-90s legislation that first banned smokers from federal government buildings and later from any workplace in Ontario, they cropped up in front of and behind buildings across Ottawa.<\/p>\n

Butt-filled and foul smelling, not too many even thought about the demands the improvised spaces put on the public sphere.<\/p>\n

But one Ottawa entrepreneur did. Seeing so many federal buildings go smoke-free before the Ontario-wide legislation came into force gave local office supplier Jerry Johnstone the head start on a marketplace that soon was booming across the world, and his patented “Butt Stop” public ashtrays have now been sold around the globe including to clients like the US military and resort hotels in the Caribbean. The photo above is from Santa Barbara, California.<\/p>\n

What is interesting about his designs is the way they reflect institutional attitudes about smoking. Durable and made from stainless steel, when bolted on to the wall of a loading bay or rear wall of a building, they are usually the only concession made to the existance of smokers in the workforce.<\/p>\n

And as rules proliferate that send smokers nine meters away from entrances or even right off certain properties altogether, Gerry’s outdoor ashtrays have taken on attributes that acknowledge the banishment. One model is actually called “smoker’s outpost<\/a>” \u2013 a single upright on a weighted base with a hole at the top of the post. Meant for a parking lot or piece of waste ground well away from the building itself, smokers huddle around the remote structure,\u00a0 creating yet another form of this improvised and unplanned social space.<\/p>\n

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