Editor's note: A passenger filed a lawsuit against the railway company over secondhand smoke wafting from the connective areat of carriages during a six-hour train journey from Jinan to Beijing. Smoking is banned in high-speed trains in China, but is permitted in regular train carriages, and most trains have set up smoking areas. Readers share their opinions.
 
fallincloud
 
Suffering secondhand smoke is far more harmful than one doing that, so in all public places, it has to be forbidden. A law should be imposed to prohibit smoking! It can't wait anymore!
 
 
A passenger smokes before a high-speed train leaves the station in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, 

tmphgt
 
Smoking might be a "personal choice" but the smoke doesn't care less if it wanders into the lungs of a non-smoke. Ban it and ban it everywhere would be my choice.
cestmoi
 
Yes, all smoking must be banned on trains, buildings and any enclosed public spaces. No one wants to breathe in your secondhand smoke. It is unhealthy in the extreme, for the passive smoker even worse as he/she has to breathe in your germs as well. 

Eellink
 
When I walk on the road, I sometimes suffer from secondhand cigarettes. I hate to smell such an odor. It's very annoying.

voterigger
 
Smokers have every right to smoke. That is their problem. However any smoker that smokes near me makes it my problem, and therefore I am free to take whatever legal action I choose. That is a way of looking at it.

Barbara
 
Smoking has been banned in bullet trains, then why make an exception for regular ones? Passengers on regular trains have every right to have a joyful and comfortable experience as their counterparts in bullet trains.

 

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