Smoking at train stations

[Bucks5]

How do us Victorians feel about this? It was going to be banned but Bracks & Co. backed down.

Personally, I think it should it have been banned as I always seem to be surrounded by smokers & the wind always carries the smoke towards me.

What do you guys think?

 

[Darky]

I don't smoke, and find the smell of it revolting but I think banning some forms of outdoor smoking is taking things a bit too far.

It's just another way for Braxxy to try to top up state coffers by inventing a new law to be broken, and a new fine to be introduced.

The article in the Herald-Sun today that speeding fines were at their lowest for ages shows that Braxxy's treasury will be in a bit of poo for a little while, so what better way to raise revenue than to introduce new things you can be fined for.

 

[evade28]

bracks would have to do something pretty goddam good to get my vote next election.
reckons hes so good for us bla bla bla, flipping puts a billion speed cameras around and pings us for 3k over.
and now he wants to put up the train tickets.
theyve got ****loads in the coffers from the speeding fines, but nooo of course they dont spend it on anything pointful, ie hospitals. no they **** it up against the wall on poxy concrete slabs painted pink and tan and put them on freeways calling them 'art'. pfft.

bwt as for smoking at train stations, i can just imagine everyone stopping smoking at the stations just cos he says so! or he wil probably frit some more money away on paying people to go to the stations and 'police' them, well someones gonna have to pay for that so he wil probably use it as an excuse to hike up ticket prices ONCE AGAIN.

 

[Fishfinger]

Originally posted by Bucks5
How do us Victorians feel about this? It was going to be banned but Bracks & Co. backed down.



Boycott Puffing Billy.

 

[Nic]

Don't care. If people want to smoke that's fine, they can do it, and I don't have to stand near them.

 

[marcuz]

As long as they remember to Puff, Puff, pass

Nothing worse than somebody hogging the weed.

 

[Z_K]

I smoke at the station, but I don't do it near anyone unless I got to that particular spot first. Last week I was standing by myself, 15 metres clear either side and a woman came and stood beside me and asked me to stop smoking.

Just for her I lit up another and starting blowing her way.

I blew the smoke her way aswell.

 

[mantis]

Originally posted by NorthBhoy
I smoke at the station, but I don't do it near anyone unless I got to that particular spot first. Last week I was standing by myself, 15 metres clear either side and a woman came and stood beside me and asked me to stop smoking.

Just for her I lit up another and starting blowing her way.

I blew the smoke her way aswell.

GGGGRRRRRHHHH happens to me as well, it really annoys me.

I make sure I go as far away from people as I can, then some dropkick will come & stand right next to me & tell me to put out the ciggie, I just tell them to **** off, if they don't like smoke, then go & stand somewhere else.

 

[maccas_no1]

Originally posted by Bucks5
How do us Victorians feel about this? It was going to be banned but Bracks & Co. backed down.

Personally, I think it should it have been banned as I always seem to be surrounded by smokers & the wind always carries the smoke towards me.

What do you guys think?

The sooner the better smoking is a dirty, filfy habit

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by mantis

I make sure I go as far away from people as I can, then some dropkick will come & stand right next to me & tell me to put out the ciggie, I just tell them to **** off, if they don't like smoke, then go & stand somewhere else.

Yeah I do the same thing, and it NEVER fails that someone will come and stand right next to me, even if the platform is almost empty. That's their problem though.

I don't think smoking should be banned on train platforms, they're pretty open spaces and well, most smokers won't wander into a crowded spot and light up. Despite what most non smokers think of us, we aren't all inconsiderate and wanting to poison you with our addiction.

 

[anonymous Joe]

Originally posted by marcuz
As long as they remember to Puff, Puff, pass

Nothing worse than somebody hogging the weed.

puff puff give don't **** up the rotation.

 

[utility]

I hate smokes but I don't have a problem with people smoking outdoors, given there is a non-smoking area at the station. I agree with Darky, it's just another cash grab by the state government.

 

[Bucks5]

What stations have "No smoking areas"???

At my local station there is an enclosed area where you can buy the paper & tickets. Of course die-hard smokers will just walk through it puffing away (because they are Selfish pr1cks or cant wait 10 seconds to lit up). You end up being trapped in an enclosed area with smoke, defeats the purpose.

 

[catattack]

They have a right to do it, but personally I think it’s disgusting and I cringe when seeing someone light up near me. However, I’ll move away, so they don’t kill me whilst killing themselves.

 

[Slax]

Stop all your bloody whinging you non-smokers. All I say is move to Europe or Asia, actually in fact anywhere in the world except North America where people aren't paranoid about the misconception of passive smoking.

Passive smoking is a joke. It has been proved that if you walk around a place like the CBD in Melbourne for 2 hours it is equivalent to smoking 5 cigarettes. If you were to sit in a ventilated pub for the same time you would smoke the same number.

So why don't we ban cars?
Why don't they take old cars that use leaded petrol off the road altogether?
Smokers are easy prey for politicians but at the end of the day if the got rid of us it would cost the state budget over $2 billion.

 

[Fishfinger]

Originally posted by Slax
Smokers are easy prey for politicians but at the end of the day if the got rid of us it would cost the state budget over $2 billion.



I don't think they were intending to cull smokers.

The money lost from stopping people smoking would be recouped many times over in the savings from the reduced smoking related health costs.

 

[TheWackedYak]

Originally posted by marcuz
As long as they remember to Puff, Puff, pass

Nothing worse than somebody hogging the weed.

At last, common sense triumphs!!

 

[Bombers 2003]

Originally posted by mantis
GGGGRRRRRHHHH happens to me as well, it really annoys me.

I make sure I go as far away from people as I can, then some dropkick will come & stand right next to me & tell me to put out the ciggie, I just tell them to **** off, if they don't like smoke, then go & stand somewhere else.

A good idea,but u know they only do it to annoy Smokers.

 

[Aussie Jones18]

while we are at it lets ban people who smoke (like myself) from smoking anywhere... its outdoors what more do you want we already cant smoke in most public places.... stop the whinging for gods sake

 

[Mr Q]

A few points smokers:

Most non-smokers can smell cigarette smoke quite a long way off and its offensive. For instance I detest getting a whiff of that **** at the traffic lights because someone has to smoke as they drive. Its outside, yeah, but not unnoticeable. You might think you're standing far enough away, you're probably not.

Over the years I've caught quite a few trains, and I noticed a strong tendency for smokers to occupy all the covered areas of a station - particularly annoying when it rains (Wimbledon station in London in February is a very miserable place if the only place you can stand away from the cigarette smoke is in the drizzle). When smokers all go to the downwind end of the platform to smoke I'll believe they give a ****.

Oh, and its not just the passive smoking that is offensive - its the smell as well, and the delightful sight of all those cigarette butts you can't be bothered carrying as far as a bin.

Personally I believe that smoking should be banned in all waiting areas (stations, bus stops etc) because non-smokers use those areas. Actually I'd go further and ban smoking in any areas where you're not allowed to drink, thereby making it an individual's choice as to whether they have to put up with someone else's smoke.

 

[Bombers 2003]

Originally posted by Mr Q
A few points smokers:

Most non-smokers can smell cigarette smoke quite a long way off and its offensive. For instance I detest getting a whiff of that **** at the traffic lights because someone has to smoke as they drive. Its outside, yeah, but not unnoticeable. You might think you're standing far enough away, you're probably not.

Over the years I've caught quite a few trains, and I noticed a strong tendency for smokers to occupy all the covered areas of a station - particularly annoying when it rains (Wimbledon station in London in February is a very miserable place if the only place you can stand away from the cigarette smoke is in the drizzle). When smokers all go to the downwind end of the platform to smoke I'll believe they give a ****.

Oh, and its not just the passive smoking that is offensive - its the smell as well, and the delightful sight of all those cigarette butts you can't be bothered carrying as far as a bin.

Personally I believe that smoking should be banned in all waiting areas (stations, bus stops etc) because non-smokers use those areas. Actually I'd go further and ban smoking in any areas where you're not allowed to drink, thereby making it an individual's choice as to whether they have to put up with someone else's smoke.

Smokers have the same rights as everyone else.So why keep curtailing them.Drinkers are often worse then Smokers and their rights arent curtailed.In fact most governments encourage them,yet they get LESS revenue from Drinkers then Smokers.[Pls note i'm an ex-smoker].

 

[Mr Q]

Originally posted by Bombers 2003
Smokers have the same rights as everyone else.So why keep curtailing them.Drinkers are often worse then Smokers and their rights arent curtailed.In fact most governments encourage them,yet they get LESS revenue from Drinkers then Smokers.[Pls note i'm an ex-smoker].

Drinkers rights are most definitely curtailed. Street drinking laws for instance. You certainly can't drink a can of beer legally while on a station platform.

All I'm suggesting is that the laws regarding smoking are restricted the same as the laws regarding drinking; licenced premises etc. Incidentally, what has revenue got to do with what's right and wrong?

 

[swift_dog]

Oh great, people bashing smokers again.

I am a smoker and I always take great care not to have my smoke go near anyone, smoking or not, and always throw by butts in the bin.

Why should I have to sit on a train and smell that revolting perfume the woman in front of me is wearing? Why should I have to smell the BO emitting from the man behind me? Why should I have to endure some crazy person ranting next to me? It's life, we can't expect to be comfortable everywhere, especially public transport, so get over it.

 

[Port1978]

I'm a non-smoker & I personally don't mind people smoking at train/bus stations, as long as they don't come along & light up next to me if I was there 1st. If they were already there smoking that's fine, I'll just stay away from themm

 

[jacqui9]

The only thing that annoys me about smokers is the fact that my smoker manager takes about ten smoko breaks during the day.