While smoking is already banned on the CTA, a group of Chicago alderpeople called for stricter enforcement of the ban last month.

Johnson says he wants to put social workers at stops and launch an anti-smoking campaign. A council member who’s pushed for enforcement against smoking says the mayor’s ideas could lack teeth.

Mayor Brandon Johnson signaled an openness to ramping up police enforcement, but shared few specifics on what anti-smoking efforts will look like or cost.

Johnson on Tuesday signed an executive order calling for a “full-force of government approach” to tackling the pervasive smoking problem on city trains and buses.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is taking steps to address one of the biggest complaints by CTA riders: smoking on the trains and buses.