Ban Smoking in Public Places

This debate in our parlimentary discussion yesterday. Our Nation-building press had an article, and I am only cutting the relevant portion :


The Health Promotion Board (HPB) survey found that about one in three smokers is in favour of banning people from lighting up in pubs, bars and other entertainment outlets. About one in five smokers is in favour of a similar move in hawker centres and coffee shops. And about two in three smokers are in favour of a ban in open-air places frequented by the young.

Among non-smokers, the figures are predictably higher - with more than 70 per cent in favour of a ban at entertainment outlets and more than 60 per cent at hawker centres and coffee shops. Many were also in favour of bans at bus stops, alfresco dining areas, and places such as Jurong BirdPark and the Singapore Zoo.

HPB conducted the door-to-door survey in November and December last year. A total of 1,300 people - 715 non-smokers and 585 smokers - were interviewed.


Now, if only the one-in-three and one-int-five smokers will voluntarily not smoke in public, would that help a lot ? I get a feeling that more than half of those one-in-three and one-in-five are actually just giving politically-correct answers.

Solution ? I know.

Increase tax, increase price.



Oh, it has been done ?
Damn, I am always slow...