CHINA RAILWAY GROUP updated its ban on smoking in bullet trains last month and said that those caught smoking might be banned from buying tickets for bullet trains for a certain period of time. However, there are still smoking areas on other trains. The smoking ban should apply to both, said Beijing Youth Daily on Thursday:

China Railway has said that bullet trains are air-tight and have all kinds of sensors that make it easy to detect any smoke, which will trigger the alarm and cause the train to automatically brake. That is not the case with other trains, which have to rely on the staff on the train to stop people from smoking in non-smoking areas.

The company's response is rather honest because it openly admits it does not care about the health of passengers.