Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
How DISGUSTING to smoke in a hospital. How can that be allowed? Poor you, it must have been awful to stay in the hospital under such conditions.
Smoking in hospital is not allowed of course. But what then?
The only penalty is driving out, but it is probably considered "too cruel".
No one is personally responsible to punish violators, and if there was the one, it would be very dangerous work. The smokers get very aggressive when cannot smoke.

Regarding smoking in transport, I laid on thick a bit (сгустил краски):
In trains, smoking usually happens "в тамбуре" (some bastards though smoke "в купе" too), but the smoke flows into carriage. Things are worse "в плацкартных вагонах", because they are often overcrowded.
In buses, only driver and passengers-hooligans smoke. Drivers are worst, because they are 100% smokers, are smoking without breaks, and again, all passengers have to smell it.
In planes, they smoke in toilets.
In taxis, with probability of 70%, during your short trip the driver will smoke. Another 30% - driver does not smoke at all, or respectful enough to smoke only when passengers quit.