Shops which were earlier selling cigarettes will no longer be allowed to do so at this station. The sale of pan masalas and gutkas had already been banned earlier.

Divisional Railway Manager K C Jena said, ``The order about not allowing cigarettes or pan masalas to be sold in the station had come to the division a long time back but it had to be implemented only on the `World Environment Day.''

Jena added that it was a decision which had to be taken by all the divisions of the railways. Speaking to Express Newsline a traveller, Mukesh Pandey, who takes gutkha and pan masala, appreciated the board's decision and said, ``At least as long as the passenger has to wait in the station there would be no way by which he could think of consuming these addictives.''

Another passenger, Jitendra Pandya said, ``The decision is good but there should be some way by which passengers who consume such addictives could be fined''.