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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
Oilman:
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--- Quote from: Oilman on 29 Jan 2015, 11:01 ---How does smoking on US trains work? I don't smoke so I don't care, but most (though not all) British trains have smoking areas.
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This isn't even slightly true. Smoking on trains, or in train stations, is completely banned as it has been in all public areas since 2007.
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Well, I don't smoke and rarely use trains these days - I don't even work in the UK most of the time - so I'll just plead ignorance
Thrillho:
Ah fair enough, you sounded quite authoritative about it so it seemed a bit odd. Worry not!
For what it's worth, as an ex-smoker, I'm still finding my vapouriser to be an amusing grey area. It's not officially banned in public places yet (although that will obviously be coming soon) but I'm finding that in some places I can use it indoors with no problem and others I can't.
As an example, I make a regular train journey at the weekends and have found that I can use my vape actually on the platform at my nearest station, but at Paddington I have to go stand outside with the smokers. Anyone who's been to that station will know it has a long sort of driveway as its main entrance, with the smoking area on one side of it and the other side being smoke free, and on more than one occasion, despite the fact that I wasn't smoking, I've been actually moved along into the smoking area for just using my vape there.
(I for one think this is stupid. Some people theorise that people using vapes in public will encourage more people to use them or that it will make them smoke - the NHS people I've spoken to have said there's no evidence of this. I would argue it's far stupider sending people with vaporisers to actual smoking areas. It's like saying a recovering alcoholic can only drink non-alcoholic beer in bars, and absolutely nowhere else, or sending a heroin addict to take their methadone in an opium den.)
Given the lack of legislation around vapes (and indeed, lack of signs) I've often taken it as read that I can just use it almost anywhere unless told otherwise so if it's a late night and no ticket inspectors are around I sometimes even use it actually on the trains.
Oilman:
I don't know about vapes.
I did use trains regularly until about 2006 or 2007 but I pretty much sbandoned tbe effort to make a living in UK after that, so I'm a bit out of date on that it seems
hedgie:
Gawds, I remember even when it was technically not kosher to smoke in tube stations that it was tolerated, if not normal.
Oilman:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 30 Jan 2015, 03:32 ---Gawds, I remember even when it was technically not kosher to smoke in tube stations that it was tolerated, if not normal.
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Kings Cross put a stop to that...
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