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Have you ever came across this situation when in the middle of the night, when you are enjoying the music from your favourite radio station, suddenly there's this choking smell which irritates your nose and reminds you of all this cancer-causing carcinogens...and you are suddenly reminded that your secondary school general science teacher once told you that passive smokers are more at risk from lung cancer than the smokers themselves because when these carcinogens are released into the air, they are at least a thousand times more harmful to the human body...

You panicked... you run amok, all over your home, trying to find the source of that horrible smell
And you realise it's from the kitchen. You close the window, so that the overwhelming smell does not come in, yet, at the same time you are afraid that the smell does not flow out.

Yes..so what if the govt bans smoking in bus stops or segregate smokers from non-smokers in public places?
Once these people are at home, they have the right to smoke at their windows, so that their neighbours below, above or next to them can become passive smokers and innocently suffer the same ghastly consequences as they themselves.



An excerpt:

The National Environment Agency (NEA) and Health Promotion Board (HPB) are reviewing the list of places not covered under the current smoking ban, such as pubs, bus shelters, bus interchanges, public toilets, coffee shops and hawker centres. The current smoking ban covers 26 categories of places, and was last reviewed in 1997.
2. It is widely acknowledged that passive smoking, or breathing in the tobacco smoke from smokers, contributes to the risks of cancer and heart disease. Coffeeshops and hawker centres are places where families and children as well as non-smokers go often for meals. It is difficult for them to get away from second-hand smoke from smokers sitting around them.
3. The Feedback Unit is organizing four dialogue sessions to consult the public (both smokers and non-smokers) on the extension of the smoking ban to coffee shops and hawker centres. Please note that for the English and Malay speaking session, there will be English translation for feedback given in Malay.


yea...like if we sit 1m away from smokers we will not breathe in any...
like they only smoke in coffeeshops..
haiz..at least there's something being done..