Smoking out the drivers
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01 anti-smoking organisation has complained about Edinburgh bus irivers who smoke on duty. The Association for Non-smokers' lights says it objects to passengers being forced to inhale tobacco unoke when the law forbids drivers to light up while working.
Phillip Whidden, ANSR chairnan, said: "I make about 12 or 15 trips on an Edinburgh bus every month and invariably come across drivers smoking." He called on passengers on Lothian Region or Eastern Scottish buses to complain and urged the operators to post signs on buses advising passengers of their rights.
Charles Evans, Lothian director of public transport, said: "It is against the law for a public service vehicle driver to smoke while operating a bus. We have a disciplinary procedure for those who are caught." He did not regard it as a major problem and said there had been no significant recent increase in the number of cases,