Spiral of Silence Part Two (Again with the examples)

Here are some examples of the Spiral of Silence theory I was talking about.

Imagine at your workplace, everyone's hours are cut by 4 hours. You are displeased with the change, but all of your coworkers are fine with it. How likely are you to complain to them about it? Not very likely. As a social creature, you know that your beliefs are not shared by your coworkers and inherently you don't want to be an excluded because of this.

Or imagine you are at work again. You work in a clothes store and someone has returned a shirt that smells heavily of cigarette smoke. Your coworkers are complaining about the smell and discussing what a disgusting habit smoking is. Would you mention to them that you are a smoker, or would you say nothing?

I actually ran into this at work one day. We had a woman return 2 tank tops that smelled very strongly of cigarette smoke. All my coworkers spent a large amount of time complaining about the smell, the audacity of trying to return a shirt that smelled so much of smoke, and how disgusting smoking cigarettes is. Here is the really interesting part, everyone was agreeing how terrible and disgusting smoking is and yet I know for a fact that at least 4 of my coworkers regularly smoke cigarettes. Although they are smokers, they were bad-mouthing them because that was the public opinion and they were simply agreeing with what everyone else was saying.