01-26-2017, 11:25 AM
The systems in use on airplanes to prevent smoking on airplanes is better than the system in use at GRT stops (I mean, no system at all). I agree strongly that smokers should be given appropriate places to smoke- that analogy with safe injection sites is a smart one, and I have never heard it before. It makes sense.
But I hate when people smoke at bus stops, and they seem to disproportionately be the type of people who do not react well to gentle criticism. Since I’m not a big fan of being sworn at by someone whom I then have to wait and subsequently be on the same bus with, I now quietly inhale second-hand smoke until the bus comes. I wonder how many would-be transit riders have done that, and decided they’d rather be in their smoke-free climate-controlled cars instead.
I wish a no-smoking policy at bus stops (and Ion stations) would be even sporadically enforced.
But I hate when people smoke at bus stops, and they seem to disproportionately be the type of people who do not react well to gentle criticism. Since I’m not a big fan of being sworn at by someone whom I then have to wait and subsequently be on the same bus with, I now quietly inhale second-hand smoke until the bus comes. I wonder how many would-be transit riders have done that, and decided they’d rather be in their smoke-free climate-controlled cars instead.
I wish a no-smoking policy at bus stops (and Ion stations) would be even sporadically enforced.