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DFDS Ferries have a smoking room. Can the Railways and Airlines not do the same?

DFDS Ferries have an indoor smoking room on their ships. Can the Railways in Britain and the Long Haul Airlines not provide the same? About 25% of us smoke. How hard is it to provide a simple partition in an aircraft; and put the smoking carriage at the end of the train so non-smokers do not have to walk through it.

When most people smoked, there were non-smoking compartments on trains in the UK! I'm old enough to remember those days.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It doesn't matter where you put the smoking carriage in the train, the (probably non-smoking) guard will have to walk through it to check the tickets. The same goes for the stewards on an aeroplane. On a ferry the crew do not need to enter the smoking room (it can be cleaned after the smokers have left and the air has cleared). Why should the staff have to put up with the stink of smoke?

    The railways now have to be non-smoking in most of the UK to comply with the law. Smoking is not allowed in almost any public place or workplace - but the exact laws vary from country to country: you can smoke on an outside station platform in Scotland, but not in England. An exception may exist for ships because of the length of journey, and because it may not always be safe to go out on deck for a smoke - think of a trawler in heavy seas.

    You will just have to plan your journey so that you have smoking breaks, or chew some nicotine gum. One railway that may have sympathy with you is Scotrail - the Glasgow to Oban train usually stops for a break halfway at Ardlui (but this is a single line where it has to wait for the down train).

  • 1 decade ago

    Us smokers are now the pariahs of the world....I am sure you won't find any sympathy here. I have found that even smokers are turning on other smokers now...

    I know it is bad for us..and I am trying to quit...but I am just sick of being treated like a leper....alcoholics and other addicts get help...but smokers are treated as if we are lower than both.

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree with you. We smokers are being deprived from enjoying long distance travels – not to speak of tours and public places - because of this. We have the right to be treated fairly. Even AIDS victims, alcoholics, and homosexuals are being sympathized with, why not smokers? I suggest you present this concern to Philip Morris - they have the power AND the drive to negotiate this with relevant authorities and plane/train factories - and they may reward you generously if they succeed (I am serious).

  • 4 years ago

    very properly so there replaced right into a learn how to determine how a lot THC might kill an animal so like the disgusting merciless people we are, they examined on rats. the top effect replaced into that's actually impossible to die from smoking weed, you could die from carbon dioxide poisoning in case you smoke over 1000 pounds of weed in quarter-hour (impossible needless to say) additionally, you could't get lung maximum cancers from smoking in basic terms weed (ur cats clever to leave while u smoke cigs) i replaced into additionally disturbing approximately smoking with my cats around in the past each and every thing, yet before this 12 months the fleas in our section have been truly undesirable and considered one of our cats is allergic to fleas (we didnt understand on the time) she chewed off her fur and a few pores and skin, we had to maintain her in a cone 24/7 for some months. She grew to alter into depressed, does no longer eat, and can have suits of attacking herself (no longer seizures, she replaced into in simple terms frantically attempting to scratch and chew her pores and skin) she replaced into underweight and smelled like death, we were spending all of our time, funds, and love on her this entire time and it replaced into no longer sufficient. finally she have been given medicine for the fleas, and he or she didnt get as many bites. She likes to take a seat with me when I smoke yet i constantly saved the smoke faraway from her, some months after she began her medicine (she replaced into nevertheless depressed, underweight, and in a cone) i desperate to blow in basic terms slightly at her she did no longer seem to recommendations and truly began purring! and after that she replaced into eating! In all i blew smoke at her three times and that replaced into all she needed to get well and he or she is now an fairly wholesome satisfied kitty! She in simple terms grew to become 9 too! I even have 2 different cats (a male her age and a kitten in simple terms decrease than a 12 months) they the two like the scent yet i dont enable smoke close to my kitten (however technically it does no longer injury him, i might extremely wait some years in the past letting him come to a decision if he likes it or no longer) so yea until eventually ur cat chokes on a nug ur totes sturdy dude ur cats a lot greater possibly to die from eating a grape or an orange than weed.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Because it's a fire hazard. If the plane were to catch fire, it would crash land, and airlines and railways must take that precaution.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ask them not us.

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