SMOKING IN BUSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 15 May 1926, Page 17

SMOKING IN BUSES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I think it is high time come protest was made against smoking in buses. Winter is almost upon us, and in wet, cold weather it is practically out of the question to have any of the windowe open, which means that one has to sit in a bus for perhaps half an hour or more in an atmosphere of vile tobacco smoke, and by the time the journey is finished, one feels more like a smoked fish than anything else. The way some—l was going to say men, but I think "selfish tobacco" hogs" would be a better name for some of them—will get into a bus, select the most comfortable seat available, sit down and start smoking, as though they were doing the rest of the passengers a favour, is disgusting, to say the least of it. It certainly shows the breed of them, no gentleman would do it. Xobody wishes to deprive them of a smoke, but 6Urely they can find plenty of time during the day and evening to smoke to their hearts* content, without smoking in buses to the annoyance and d : scomfort of the other passensers.—l am, etc., A SUFFERER.