The Solution - Towards Tobacco-Free Singapore
http://www.tobaccofreesingapore.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/tobacco-control-article.pdf
The gist of it is by 2018, they are going to try and make cigarette illegal for generation born after 2000.
I can get their good intent coz smoking is a bad habit and could cause many health problems.
But prohibition is an awful strategy and will end in utter failure.
[video=youtube;szntim2j9Rg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szntim2j9Rg[/video]
In 1920's America tried to make alcohol illegal through prohibition. It didn't end well. It started with good intention to prevent alcoholism and alcohol related crimes. But instead make anyone who drank alcohol a criminal and promoted the "speak easy" bars where organized crime groups controlled the alcohol trade.
If by 2018, Singapore attempt this cigarette prohibition, it will not end well. History is going to repeat itself.
http://www.tobaccofreesingapore.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/tobacco-control-article.pdf
The gist of it is by 2018, they are going to try and make cigarette illegal for generation born after 2000.
I can get their good intent coz smoking is a bad habit and could cause many health problems.
But prohibition is an awful strategy and will end in utter failure.
[video=youtube;szntim2j9Rg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szntim2j9Rg[/video]
In 1920's America tried to make alcohol illegal through prohibition. It didn't end well. It started with good intention to prevent alcoholism and alcohol related crimes. But instead make anyone who drank alcohol a criminal and promoted the "speak easy" bars where organized crime groups controlled the alcohol trade.
If by 2018, Singapore attempt this cigarette prohibition, it will not end well. History is going to repeat itself.