Smoking in Chinese train
 

Is smoking allowed in the Chinese long distance trains?
If so, is there any nonsmoking section?

In China, they don't divide it on whether long or short distance but on slow vs bullet trains

Smoking is allowed on the following trains

Those without alphabets, K-trains and T trains.

Smoking is allowed at the small place between carriages. Something like this. http://www.google.com.sg/imgres?q=sm...:429,r:21,s:80

anywhere else, smoking is not allowed but if you meet someone who doesn't care, all I can say, unlucky loh but if you actually ask them nicely to smoke at the right place they will bulge.
As for the bullet trains which start with D and G - These are non-smoking trains.

So in T train smoking is not allowed, right?!

Sorry that I wasn't clear with my previous post.

Smoking is allowed in all trains except D and G trains.

In other words, Smoking is allowed in K, T and trains without alphabets.

The only bad part about this is that I end up chain-smoking to pass the time. :(

Smoking on trains in China - Fountain of Youth

People are pretty good these days.

On the HSR trains, you see a line up of people waiting for the train to stop at a station and they light up, take a couple of long drags, extinguish the light and hop back on the train.

The area near the doors sometimes have smoke filled up because they are lighting the cigarettes as they leave the door to get as much nicotine in them during the 3 minute stop.

There are enough Chinese folks that complain when people light up in the cabins that they usually don't.

Smoking rule about China: where smoking is and is not allowed typically has little correlation to what people do.

Most people do not smoke in D and esp G trains, that's not to say I haven't seen it lots before.

Sorry, gotta ask, what are trains without alphabets?

Slower "ordinary" regional and local trains.

Trains which you don't want to ride!

I was hoping that there could be a smoking room in the D & G trains. Just a small one will do but I guess its due to safety

IIRC the bullet trains are "sealed". So, no way to exhaust smoke.

re: crash
Passengers also questioned the "sealed windows" on the bullet trains, which hampered survivors' efforts to get out of the train.

Not exactly like you are going to be met by FBI agents at the next stop.

Just need a 50 yuan note, then on your way.

A Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train was forced to slow down when it approached Shandong's Dezhou city on July 5 when a passenger was discovered smoking on the train. He was fined 50 yuan ($7.80) for violating the regulation.

hahaha, 50 yuan is ridiculous.

Or just give them 1 pack of chunghwa.:D