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Smoking on Auto Train to end June 1
They actually allowed smoking on the Auto Train?
Boy, that’s being behind in the times!!!
Glad to hear of the new policy!
Good
I do not know about the AutoTrain crowd, but the smoking area on the CA Zephyr was a disaster for the conductor late at night. Guys got drunk as they smoked, and a couple were escorted off the train. Being a pipe smoker, I was there. Of course I had to roll my own using pipe tobacco because I could not smoke my pipe. I have found that the length of a smoke stop on my AMTRAK trips seems to correlate to whether the conductor smokes.
Good for AMTRAK as i am NON SMOKER i will enjoy riding the trains more now. I am also a RAILFAN and enjoy geting off the train at the longer stops. But to take photos! Frank Osborn railfaning since 1973.
So TRAINS did not see fit to repeat what Amtrak said in the original advisory: that smoking of marijuana, even “medical” marijuana, is also prohibited.
So TRAINS did not see fit to repeat what Amtrak said in the original advisory: that smoking of marijuana, even “medical” marijuana, is also prohibited.
Big government doing what big government does best. Micromanaging people. Next, because Amtrak is so “critical” to the handicapped, the entire system will become handicapped only. What is to stop government from doing that? The same thing that stopped government from banning smoking. Violation of the Constitution is alive and well. Long may the Constitution be ignored…
…According to the socialist, that is.
Big government doing what big government does best. Micromanaging people. Next, because Amtrak is so “critical” to the handicapped, the entire system will become handicapped only. What is to stop government from doing that? The same thing that stopped government from banning smoking. Violation of the Constitution is alive and well. Long may the Constitution be ignored…
…According to the socialist, that is.
how stupid can amtrak be? put an empty baggage car on the headend for smokers. ventilate it! i will bet there will be more riders in there than ANY other car on the train. what a lost marketing and ticket sales opportunity. i’d rather drive than be stuck on a train for 2 days w/o smoking.
I can’t believe you gents are upset of a smoking ban.
You can’t smoke on a plane, in a restaurant…Please would you care for some cheese with your whine!
Goosie’s at it again! This clown will always find something to nitpick Amtrak with. I suppose you enjoy secondhand smoke, huh Goosie?
Gene Poon, where did you see any reference to smoking pot on a passenger train. Perhaps you smoked too much weed.
Michael Morris, why don’t quit smoking? I believe your lungs will thank you for it.
The comments are comical. No common sense whatsoever. And there’s Jeffery Guze, with the 400th comment containing the word socialism.
I am glad to read of this change. I can remember how much second hand smoke I had to breathe in the past. Smokers should appreciate this effort to heklp them kick their addiction.
First they did it to the smokers. Be careful fat people your next. In the politically correct war on a minority that segregation was not enough to satisfy. They want completely banish them. The PC police will not be happy until there view of the world is law. Too bad, it used to be a free country.
Sure glad I gave up the habit over half a decade ago. Designated airport smoking areas in places like LHR and ATL reminded me of leper colonies, anyway.
LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE. WHAT A JOKE.
Mr. Warner, we smokers are getting really tired of being discriminated against because our habit is unpleasant to others. We are kicked outside anywhere we want to indulge, and are a favorite target for new taxes. Even in open air parks, we often find the dreaded “no smoking” signs! And to Mr. Koster, when we want help to quit, we will go and ask for it, but we resent having “help” forced upon us. We all know the risks, and most of us don’t want to force others to inhale our smoke, but we are tired of having our freedom trampled upon.