Smoking banned from train platforms as Stoptober campaign begins
NL TimesThursday was a difficult day for many tobacco users in the Netherlands, with smoking officially disallowed at all of the country's train stations and platforms, tobacco sales banned from station shops, and most tobacco products sold elsewhere will only be packaged in drab, muddy colors. Thursday also marks the start of Stoptober, an annual campaign where tens of thousands of people in the Netherlands try to quit smoking for a four-week period. The last pole was removed from the Krommenie-Assendelft station and added to the museum's collection "because smoking at stations and on platforms is now a part of history." Any cigarette and shag tobacco products sold in shops around the Netherlands may only be provided in muddy-colored brown and green packaging beginning on Thursday.
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