Over 570 people caught with duty-unpaid cigarettes within 1st month of new law

[SamuelStalin]

Banning is draconian, impractical and inhumane. It will just create an underground market. Moreover, how do we ban tourists, etc from smoking?

If smokers have any brain matter left at all, they will be trying their best to quit. many have successfully got rid of the addiction. Only the stupid and weak smokers are left with the life long addiction. So fucking idiotic.

Worse are smokers who make the following excuses:

1) My grandfather (or insert any male elderly person) smoked his whole life and he lived till 120 yr old
2) I exercise everyday
3) I smoke "lite" cigarettes (this is one of the dumbest)
4) I am not addicted, I enjoy smoking
5) Smoking relaxes me (another dumb reason. Smoking DOES NOT relax you,

No Sporn fuck, you left out the most intellectual excuse:
*) Everything is predestined, how much one gets to use, how long one gets to live. Look at the city smog, the poisonous fumes emitting from the exhaust pipes of those vehicles. Do you not breathe into them at all? Are you sure you do not face any chemical poisoning?

Quite good, but I'm still not convinced that I should take up smoking with their seemingly "makes no difference" theory.

I still won't smoke.

 

[sunny302]

we're at the mercy of the blowing wind

haha my sympaties

 

[Uncle2]

1. Lets say there are 1,000,000 smokers in Singapore, each smoke 1 pack a day;

2. Garment increase the tax of cigarettes to $50 per pack - $50mil a day x 365 days = 18.3 Billion per year;

3. Within 3 years, can recover all the losses GIC suffered this year....

 

[SneeringTree]

No Sporn fuck, you left out the most intellectual excuse:
*) Everything is predestined, how much one gets to use, how long one gets to live. Look at the city smog, the poisonous fumes emitting from the exhaust pipes of those vehicles. Do you not breathe into them at all? Are you sure you do not face any chemical poisoning?

Quite good, but I'm still not convinced that I should take up smoking with their seemingly "makes no difference" theory.

I still won't smoke.

Yes, that's another favourite justification!