Why do smokers get more breaks throughout the day?

What makes a smoker so special? Why do they get to take breaks more frequently than the rest of us?
If I smoke cigars, do I get a cigar break? That would be about a 30 – 40 minute break mid-day. That seems fair, doesn’t it?

What about a hookah pipe? Suppose I smoke a hookah pipe as per my local custom, my tradition, our tradition [roll the 'r' to generate Fiddler effect.] Does that mean I get to sit down outside the office, fire up some charcoal briquette (sp?), whip out the ‘ole apple flavored ‘bacci, and bubble away? (Bubble away as per the sound of the inhalation and water reaction to that inhalalation.

And what’s up with the spelling of briquette? How did we get from brick to briq, to bricket to briquette? Why didn’t we completely usurp that word from the French?