You sounds like you wrote in to NEA propose draw yellow line in kopitiam to split smoking and non smoking area.
I will not waste my time with such a useless idea. In Sinkieland's hot weather, kopitiams must have ceiling fans. So the yellow line will be bloody useless, the fans will blow the second hand smoke emitted by these shitass smokers into the non smoking area. Discerning non-smokers must eat in more expensive air conditioned places like food court. In other words, in addition to paying taxes to fund unnecessary transfer payments (like universal healthcare, universal pension, universal this and that) the good people have to pay more of their hard earned money just to avoid health hazards like smokers emitting second hand smoke.
Effective way remove the problem root, end all global cigarette makers. Factory shut down, thousands laid off, where u putting these thousands laid off people who also need to feed the family?
By your logic, opium and all narcotics should be legalised since all those low level "workers" will be without a job. Those who are laid off by cigarette factories are so useless they cannot do any other job? If that is the case, they and their families deserve to starve to death.
I agree with you, the one invented cigarette is a sinner, those produce is a sinner, those import for sales is a sinner.
The biggest sinners are the smokers themselves. Nobody point a gun at them and forced them to smoke. They are a health hazard not just to themselves but also to innocent bystanders through second hand smoke.
The prevalence of this disgusting habit of smoking is higher among those in low SES - construction workers, security guards, bus drivers, blah, blah, blah. What so stressful about these mindless menial jobs? Most in low SES pay no income tax. Yet they are so thick skinned as to want subsidized "healthcare" ahem I mean sick care when they are stricken with SELF INFLICTED diseases like lung cancer.
Medical resources are limited. Every hour of a doctor's time that is wasted on treating these people is an hour that could be more productively used on another more deserving patient. Even if they pay full price for treatment, it also means the doctor's time is misallocated and private doctors are also trained using public funds. Therefore, the solution is to ban all doctors, public and private, from treating smokers for SELF INFLICTED diseases like lung cancer. Stupid people should be made to bear the consequences of their POOR CHOICES.