to be enraged at all the smoking on train platforms?

[matildamatilda]

Train platforms are non-smoking! It's not like I can wait for the train somewhere else. I have asthma and also smoke stanks.

So many ticket checkers standing around and I have never seen them ever say a word to the people smoking right in front of them.

They can make tannoy announcements about late trains but they can't make announcements, "Remember it's illegal to smoke on the platform!"

There are smokers on either side of the platform every single morning of my small-town station. The man behind the counter just sits there staring into space when he's not selling tickets. The smokers are in his line of vision. One morning I said to him, "Sorry, is smoking allowed on the platform now?" "Oh no, not at all." "But look..." And he shook his head and said, "Well I can't... I can't..." I just walked away from him.

I've written to [Region] Rail and got a lame response that I ought to call transport police when I see someone smoking. It also said that members of the public can be irate when asked not to smoke, so that was probably why the rail station staff were not approaching them.

So I'm supposed to call transport police and restrain the smoker until they arrive? Whilst the paid rail staff person stares into space?

Really I don't get fussed about crowds, kids, music, bikes or what-have-you on the train. But I'm so pissed off here it's not even funny.

Earlier today I nearly said to a ticket checker, "Yeah I'll show you my ticket when you ask that guy to put out his cigarette."

I've become that person.

I appreciate train platforms are non - smoking however, you're hardly locked in an enclosed space with said smokers.

This is not something I could get bent out of shape about.

Smoking on the actual train on the other hand...

Where do you live? I've never seen this and once witnessed someone light up who clearly had some kind of learning difficulties and several people tried, very patiently and kindly, to explain to the person that they weren't allowed to smoke.

In Germany they have "This is a non smoking station" plastered everywhere but then they have smoking areas. It amuses me, their idea of non smoking is very different to mine!

Yanbu they are just being lazy. It's easy to tanoy please can you not smoke on the platform which is roughly what is said at most petrol stations

I've never seen this,
I commute daily to London.

Crap service IMO. Keep complaining at the station and via twitter, which is usually really effective IME.

It's boring waiting for trains.

They could tannoy the announcement and then they don't have to worry about people getting irate.

I've stopped asking people to stop smoking outside the hospital entrance where I work as most people threatened to shove my teeth down my throat when I asked them. So I can see why people don't want to ask individual smokers. Maybe they've tannoyed in the past and the tannoy was ignored so they've given up.

Although the smoking areas are useful because if you don't want to breathe the smoke, you just stand at the other end of the platform.

Smoking outside in the open, ok so it's on a rail platform but.. meh..

Cigarette smoke stinks but Diesel engine fumes don't? What?

I wonder if they're actually allowed to make it illegal, in a completely enclosed station like Birmingham New Street I would think so, but in an open building I don't think they can. It's only illegal in bus shelters because they have "three or more walls and a roof".

Don't suppose you'll die from it. Stand somewhere else.

The diesel fuel is a necessary evil. The cigarette smoke is just someone being an ass.

It is actually illegal.

Stand where? There are smokers up and down the platform. Should I go down the road somewhere and then ask them to hold the train for me when it arrives?

Sounds lik

Is it? Do they have those signs saying there is a fine? I'm not sure there are out of memory.

For addicted smokers their cigarettes are a necessary evil too. Addiction to something that is killing you is painful, terrifying, soul destroying and yet compelling.

If you can put up with the stinking and damaging diesel fumes to get you where you need to be, then you can cope with a minuscule amount of second hand cigarette smoke.

You need to find something else to worry about.

I see people speeding every day, that's illegal too. Reporting them all would be a full time job and more worthy one than you getting bent out of shape about someone having a swift cigarette on a train platform.

Wait until later on when the drug addicts are injecting on them. Or is that just my local train station?

Sounds bollocks to me. If this is real then call the police. I've never seen it. Commute every day. You sound more likely to keel over from stress.

I smoke myself but never on train platforms. Where I live smokers stand at the end of the platform and an announcement always comes on to say you can't smoke at the station but they're never approached. A man lit up right next to me and dd so I just moved away. You're not allowed to consume alcohol either but I'd be too scared to confront someone for that mainly because it's usually the local alcoholics sat under the shelter drinking and fighting

i doubt that every space on the platform has someone smoking , if they smoke on the train have a moan , but moaning about the smoke outside, really !

Fgs. Have you nothing better to worry about?

Fwiw, I'm a smoker, but I would never smoke on a train platform. However, it's OUTSIDE, is it not?

Yes, there are signs all over saying it's illegal.

Feel sorry for the poor addicts? 1. They can go have their smoke break somewhere else and I'll feel sorry for them from a distance, and 2. They made the choice to start smoking, that's their problem.

Are you sure that some of these people aren't vaping? I know C2C have signs saying no smoking including e cigs but they are the only line I know of that does say this. I asked transport police at Birmingham New Street if I could vape indoors and they said yes.

Plus, I have never seen anyone smoking on a platform. I've seen cigarette butts on the ground, but never anyone actually smoking.

your right op you have become that person !