The mobile phone thing is an excuse
They don't want people being distracted near the pumps for safety reasons and that's what they came up with.
The risk with a ciggie exists but is really pretty low - You can't do any of the hollywood bollocks of throwing a fag end onto a trail of petrol to light it. You can in very specific circumstances get a fag to light petrol vapour but even that's pretty hard to do.
With smoking near petrol though? Why take the risk?
(
DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Wed 4 Oct 2017, 11:59,
Reply)