Ban Smoking! Ban it!!
I just read news about smoking being banned in kopitiams and hawker centers soon...and its gonna be extended to all nightspots and entertainment outlets from next year onwards. Wooohooo!!~~ But I say its definitely not enough...why not impose more extreme measures??
I provided some pointers for the authorities in case the situation in Singapore does not improve.
1. Just god damn ban smoking in Singapore...don't impose so much regulations lah...waste of time...just ban the sale of cigarettes in Singapore man...well of course that would mean the government would lose a significant avenue of income from tobacco tax...but no worries...just increase the various taxes available...u got COE, ERP, property tax, income tax! Among the many that they get to choose from.
2. Impose a reward system....tax rebate for non-smokers! I am sure that will work...
3. Increase the price of cigarettes. Make smoking a luxury. Cmon man...$11 per pack for a packet of Malboro or Dunhill is way too cheap and it will not deter anyone from smoking! Make it $20!
4. Cigarettes rationing. Each citizen is only entitled to a certain amount of cigarettes per week. Anymore and you have to pay a levy...and the levy should be set ridiculously high so that people will think twice about smoking more than they should.
5. Impose an air-pollution tax. Do not let smokers get away with polluting the air...or at least charge them for it so that our nation's reserves will actually benefit from the pollution. Anyway...they can simply account for it by saying they will use the money to grow more trees to freshen the air. Or some other ways which they do not need to let us know...we are not supposed to understand anyway.
6. Restrict the avenue to purchase cigarettes. You can practically get cigarettes anywhere now. How is that supposed to help deter smoking? Make it somewhere inaccesible...like Pulau Ubin or Tuas or Lim Chu Kang. Who would wanna drive or travel all the way there just to get their daily dose of cigarettes? The ciggy rationing should also apply here in case people buy in bulk. I know of people who buy in slots for the sake of convenience.
7. Make smokers wear a "I am a smoker" tag. That way, the general public can have the option to isolate smokers because they can be identified with relative ease.
8. Make use of the mass media. Propaganda works! So run daily advertisements on TV and print media on the harmful effects of smoking. Reveal the daily statistics of people dying from lung cancer and heart-related diseases. That should scare the shit out of smokers.
9. Introduce another form of addictive. Promote alternatives like morphine or ketamin(not sure of the spelling). It is abit extreme but it sure could be an effective though desperate measure. The kick from it should be better than smoking....and it does not result in passive smoking...smokers happy from the extra kick...non smokers happy because it wun affect them...isn't that a win-win situation?
Hmmm...I am sure one of these ideas should work well. And I got more ideas that should come in handy as well. But I need a break first. Nb...why is my Dunhill sold out everywhere? Now I gotta make do with Malboro...sux man.
I provided some pointers for the authorities in case the situation in Singapore does not improve.
1. Just god damn ban smoking in Singapore...don't impose so much regulations lah...waste of time...just ban the sale of cigarettes in Singapore man...well of course that would mean the government would lose a significant avenue of income from tobacco tax...but no worries...just increase the various taxes available...u got COE, ERP, property tax, income tax! Among the many that they get to choose from.
2. Impose a reward system....tax rebate for non-smokers! I am sure that will work...
3. Increase the price of cigarettes. Make smoking a luxury. Cmon man...$11 per pack for a packet of Malboro or Dunhill is way too cheap and it will not deter anyone from smoking! Make it $20!
4. Cigarettes rationing. Each citizen is only entitled to a certain amount of cigarettes per week. Anymore and you have to pay a levy...and the levy should be set ridiculously high so that people will think twice about smoking more than they should.
5. Impose an air-pollution tax. Do not let smokers get away with polluting the air...or at least charge them for it so that our nation's reserves will actually benefit from the pollution. Anyway...they can simply account for it by saying they will use the money to grow more trees to freshen the air. Or some other ways which they do not need to let us know...we are not supposed to understand anyway.
6. Restrict the avenue to purchase cigarettes. You can practically get cigarettes anywhere now. How is that supposed to help deter smoking? Make it somewhere inaccesible...like Pulau Ubin or Tuas or Lim Chu Kang. Who would wanna drive or travel all the way there just to get their daily dose of cigarettes? The ciggy rationing should also apply here in case people buy in bulk. I know of people who buy in slots for the sake of convenience.
7. Make smokers wear a "I am a smoker" tag. That way, the general public can have the option to isolate smokers because they can be identified with relative ease.
8. Make use of the mass media. Propaganda works! So run daily advertisements on TV and print media on the harmful effects of smoking. Reveal the daily statistics of people dying from lung cancer and heart-related diseases. That should scare the shit out of smokers.
9. Introduce another form of addictive. Promote alternatives like morphine or ketamin(not sure of the spelling). It is abit extreme but it sure could be an effective though desperate measure. The kick from it should be better than smoking....and it does not result in passive smoking...smokers happy from the extra kick...non smokers happy because it wun affect them...isn't that a win-win situation?
Hmmm...I am sure one of these ideas should work well. And I got more ideas that should come in handy as well. But I need a break first. Nb...why is my Dunhill sold out everywhere? Now I gotta make do with Malboro...sux man.
2 Comments:
In Aussie land,i cant smoke within 4 metres from any door... realy abit f up
that bad ah...i was about to say i would be better off living in oz land...haha.
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