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!