On 4 Jul, 13:21, BRB Class 465 wrote:


Regardless of any possible risks to health, myself and plenty of other
non-smokers find it thoroughly unpleasant to occupy an area where
people are smoking. This is fair game where it is a designated area
like in a restaurant, but there's nothing more annoying than waiting
on a station platform and someone lighting up. This ban is not before
time, and I for one hope it gets further extended in the future.

Right. If I'm standing waiting for a train having a bunch of smoker
stand around me and light up (its happened all too often) is really
horrid. It can set off my asthma and makes me feel yuck for some time
afterwards.

Obviously if smokers *really* wanted to carry on with what they were
doing they would have (a) organised themselves to be more considerate
(eg by having designated smoking places on platforms) (b) lobbied
their manufacturers (who aren't poor) into making less polluting ways
of enjoying their addiction (as has happened with most other
technology).

But no. Absolutely nothing has been done by any smoking group to get a
way to smoke without causing lots of unpleasantness to others. That is
why I feel little sympathy (and much joy) that, after 40 years, I can
go some places without breathing in smoke. I look forward to the ban
in all public places in due course.

Francis