Rebel without a nicotine patch

[danielf]

Originally Posted by iglu

"He kept puffing throughout the three-hour trip"

One of his fellow commuters said: "We're all aware that a ban has been in place for the past couple of years on the trains.

"It was slightly embarrassing to see a politician hanging out of a train window to have a puff."

Then again, I just quoted the daily mail

[Angua]

Love the fact they had to use an old "slimline" picture of Charlie

So on a long uncovered platform the one at my local station is totally open air and about 150 metres long i cannot smoke a ciggie lmfao what a fu*king joke. How does that fit in with the term "enclosed public spaces". I wish this government would just have the balls to totally ban smoking and make it illegal rather then this creeping bs they are doing right now.

[Shaun]

Not smoking on Railway property is not down to the government it's a decision taken by the rail industry.

They've just extended their original no smoking on trains and the new "enclosed spaces" legislation to cover all of their land so as to make it more simple for people to understand.

Personally (as a non-smoker and someone in favor of the new ban) I have no issue with people smoking on uncovered platforms but obviously ATOC and the like do.

[BBKing]

They've just extended their original no smoking on trains and the new "enclosed spaces" legislation to cover all of their land so as to make it more simple for people to understand.

Someone on uk.railway pointed out that Charlie is a regular user of the Sleeper services to the Highlands, and these were the last trains in the UK to be smoking, in the lounge cars, so he might well have been one of the last legal train smokers in the UK.

Originally Posted by BBKing

...It's a pretty desperate addiction that forces you to hang out of the window of a moving 125, surely?...

Addicts have been known to do far worse things than that for their fix.

From the Daily Mail article:-
"It has also been claimed that Mr Kennedy was late for an interview for BBC Newsnight last year after stepping off a train to have a cigarette.

The train reportedly left without him but his secretary and his briefcase were still on board."

Oh please let it be true

Lest we forget it is also an addiction that keeps the tax of non smokers down.