SMOKING ON THE RAILWAYS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21199, 3 December 1930, Page 5

SMOKING ON THE RAILWAYS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —Please excuse my. boldness in criticising a magistrate’s remarks. I refer to a report from Auckland published in the Daily Times of November 20 of what is described as a trivial charge —a charge against two men o"f smoking in a non-smoker railway carriage. I frequently travel, and from the evidence given by the inspector can judge the class of men with whom he had to deal. Smoking ; in a non-smoker carriage is not a trivial matter; it is a serious annoyance to many people who are travelling, and I think the inspector should be thanked for his endeavour to bring to book such men as do not care what annoyance or physical inconvenience they cause to other travellers. I have frequently suffered annoyance from such ungentlemanly conduct, and I hope that the regulations with reference to smoking will be’more rigorously carried out. Smoking is becoming such a general nuisance and danger that something will have to be done, particularly with cigarette smokers, who do not seem to know what decency means, but inhale a chestful of abominable smoke and expel it right in one’s face without begging pardon.— l am, etc., Non-smoker. November 30.