Friday, December 19, 2008
Helloooooooo Planet Earth!!
Your birthday's coming soon right?..
Don't lie, i know its on the 1st of January;)
Sorry Miss Earth, but i am going to type about a cancer topic related to you.
Yes, yes. SMOKING (in Singapore)!!!!
Sorry again for those who are anti-smokers and green earth people, but fcuk you anyways.
I am writing this just to express my opinion. I don't smoke.
Recently i found out about the recent "mini" hike in price of cigarettes by the government. & to add salt and spices to an open wound, a ban in other supposed places which could affect non smokers in close proximity. Eg Lift entrances, Playground, car parks, non air con shopping centres and shops. Maybe by the year 2020, the only places allowed would be your own house toilet and storeroom. And maybe a fine if you are caught smoking in the dining room.
Now, I put the inverted comas in mini because in actual fact the increase in price has not been mini at all. It has been massive as these 'minis' have been amounting throughout these years.
I can still recall roughly about 6 years ago when a pack costs $5 each?
But what-the-fondling, they cost a dozen bucks now.
So now in primary school teachers will be able to teach the kids there what a dozen is without the example of no. of eggs in the basket; they could use the price of ciggs as an example now. -_-
However i believe that the increase in price of ciggs will not stop like a rammed ball rolling into a pile of mud.
This is because of the various anti-smoking campaigns aimed at reducing the number of smokers.
Please babes, honestly i think that the increase in price are just an excuse to fill the already fat wallets.(am i allowed to say this? pls notify, don't sue me)
I myself, an adolescent has seen many of my peers not deterred by the shocking price. Most of them will just juggle between part-time and studies to earn the extra cash. I agree, smoking is a habit. But won't you go all out to do the things you like? Take an example such as a good bar of chocolate; If the price of chocolates go up, would these chocolate lovers stop buying them? I dare say no.
Only the major difference between the two stated is that cigarettes are frowned upon by society(usually non-smokers) as smelly, unhealthy and affects other non-smokers health. They feel we are selfish. But, taking away the right to smoke, who is the selfish one now? This world does not belong to anyone. We need to have that mindset. Don't segregate, compromise. However if i were to talk about drugs, it would be a totally different topic to debate.
Note: I won't argue that the negative points far outweighs the positive of cigarettes. However its legal, why complain. Smokers in Singapore are here to stay and until God knows when & we have to learn to live with it.
Go ahead and flame me.
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Signing off.. 12/19/2008 01:16:00 PM
