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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ABOUT a fortnight ago, I took my two-year-old daughter to East Coast Park for a bicycle ride and to build a sand castle at the beach.
It has been ages since my last visit to the beach and the first thing I noticed was that there were many tents around.
On the beach, my wife and I saw a group from a nearby tent fishing in the waters. Isn't fishing dangerous as many people were swimming and might get entangled and hurt?
Then, one member of the group, with a cigarette in his mouth, went to the sea to scoop up sea water. When he finished smoking, he threw the butt on the beach.
He and his group, whom I presume to be a family, went swimming. One of the group was still smoking when he was half immersed. Subsequently, the cigarette disappeared from his mouth.
More spot checks are called for, and smoking should be banned on beaches. Nick Lee
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ABOUT a fortnight ago, I took my two-year-old daughter to East Coast Park for a bicycle ride and to build a sand castle at the beach.
It has been ages since my last visit to the beach and the first thing I noticed was that there were many tents around.
On the beach, my wife and I saw a group from a nearby tent fishing in the waters. Isn't fishing dangerous as many people were swimming and might get entangled and hurt?
Then, one member of the group, with a cigarette in his mouth, went to the sea to scoop up sea water. When he finished smoking, he threw the butt on the beach.
He and his group, whom I presume to be a family, went swimming. One of the group was still smoking when he was half immersed. Subsequently, the cigarette disappeared from his mouth.
More spot checks are called for, and smoking should be banned on beaches. Nick Lee
