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.

It's illegal but what the hell, just ignore it, stand somewhere else

However, use your phone in a cinema which isn't illegal or use a disabled toilet and people are up in arms. Isn't it about showing consideration for people. Some people are just so bloody selfish.

They are very strict in Newcastle. I have never seen anyone smoking there. In fact the no smoking area extends until you are right away from the station itself. I presume this is so you don't get groups of smokers huddled round the entrance.

I have not seen anybody smoking on platforms not that i am in a train station that long I always have one in the smokers corner before i go in which train station is this keep complaining

that often* not long

a stinker upwind is quite disgusting, and most of us can smell it. The only consolation is knowing that they've upped their chances of dying earlier.

you do need to move, OP. Check wind direction.

I commute daily and see this on a weekly basis I would say. It's disgusting and smelly and not what you need on a train before 0630.

I'm sometimes tempted to walk up and belch in their face, that's not illegal, it won't give them cancer and it won't make their clothes and hair smell…

Also sitting next to smokers on the train is boakworthy, I honestly believe smokers don't realise how bad they smell.

Don't even get me started on the ones who have a last desperate smoke immediately before coming in for their dental appointment...