Sunday, July 09, 2006
thank you for smoking.
my poor baby's really sick. *pat pat* i think it must be due to his excess of vices over the past week. *tsk tsk*
i've heard and read tt most smokers are unhappy with the new smoking ban at eating outlets, but so far it hasn't affected him too much coz he doesn't mind sitting at a non-smoking table with me and scooting off midway during meal time to some obscure corner to smoke.
but tt being said i am not surprised tt people are unhappy with the new smoking ban. so maybe smokers make up 20% of the total population, but assuming tt this makes designating only 20% of eating areas towards smoking an adequate measure to pacify them, is stupid.
for one, smokers do not distribute themselves equally over eating places, so there is no guarantee tt smokers will always make up 20% of the crowd at any one time. for another, smokers do not always have friends who are smokers. sure, the bf's got friends who smoke, but he also has friends who don't. i for one, don't smoke. and this is true for most smokers. so in such cases, how on earth do you expect us to find sufficient smoking tables?
sure. i don't like 2nd hand smoke and all tt. sometimes it irritates my eyes. but as long as your smoking counterpart is considerate of your situation and tries not to blow smoke into them, it isn't so bad. as far as i am concerned, the smoking ban is a stupid idea. and i'm saying this as a non-smoker who knows someone who smokes. not only because it seems manifestly unfair to smokers and their friends, but also because it doesn't necessarily protect non-smokers. in theory it might, but in practice, have you seen where they designate the smoking areas, especially at smaller eating places? if they don't relegate smokers to some obscure corner, chances are tt the designated smoking area is just next to the non-smoking area. so the poor souls who happen to be sitting in those seats aren't going to be protected at all. furthermore, the heavy cloud of smoke from the smoking area is likely to blow over as a whole to the non-smoking area, coz tt's how the particles generally tend to travel.
singapore is an incredibly smoke-unfriendly place. the taxes for cigarettes is very high, and prices are increasing further; smokers have been relegated to obscure corners tt comprise of no more than 20% of the total area of outdoor eating sections, and to add to tt you have overzealous enforcement officers who go around fining people for an offence under a law tt is in my opinion, stupid. i think tt this will have one of 2 effects on the smoking population: either 1) more people will be forced to quit smoking; or 2) more people will either end up having to spending more of their income on cigarettes and endure the legalised discrimination, or change to cheaper filterless cigarettes or ang hoon, and end up increasing their risks of succumbing to lung cancer or some similar medical equivalent.
whoopie.
that being said, "thank you for smoking" is indeed, a brilliant show. it doesn't actually encourage or discourage smoking per se, but it offers a good insight as to how people like... say, lawyers might work.
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i've heard and read tt most smokers are unhappy with the new smoking ban at eating outlets, but so far it hasn't affected him too much coz he doesn't mind sitting at a non-smoking table with me and scooting off midway during meal time to some obscure corner to smoke.
but tt being said i am not surprised tt people are unhappy with the new smoking ban. so maybe smokers make up 20% of the total population, but assuming tt this makes designating only 20% of eating areas towards smoking an adequate measure to pacify them, is stupid.
for one, smokers do not distribute themselves equally over eating places, so there is no guarantee tt smokers will always make up 20% of the crowd at any one time. for another, smokers do not always have friends who are smokers. sure, the bf's got friends who smoke, but he also has friends who don't. i for one, don't smoke. and this is true for most smokers. so in such cases, how on earth do you expect us to find sufficient smoking tables?
sure. i don't like 2nd hand smoke and all tt. sometimes it irritates my eyes. but as long as your smoking counterpart is considerate of your situation and tries not to blow smoke into them, it isn't so bad. as far as i am concerned, the smoking ban is a stupid idea. and i'm saying this as a non-smoker who knows someone who smokes. not only because it seems manifestly unfair to smokers and their friends, but also because it doesn't necessarily protect non-smokers. in theory it might, but in practice, have you seen where they designate the smoking areas, especially at smaller eating places? if they don't relegate smokers to some obscure corner, chances are tt the designated smoking area is just next to the non-smoking area. so the poor souls who happen to be sitting in those seats aren't going to be protected at all. furthermore, the heavy cloud of smoke from the smoking area is likely to blow over as a whole to the non-smoking area, coz tt's how the particles generally tend to travel.
singapore is an incredibly smoke-unfriendly place. the taxes for cigarettes is very high, and prices are increasing further; smokers have been relegated to obscure corners tt comprise of no more than 20% of the total area of outdoor eating sections, and to add to tt you have overzealous enforcement officers who go around fining people for an offence under a law tt is in my opinion, stupid. i think tt this will have one of 2 effects on the smoking population: either 1) more people will be forced to quit smoking; or 2) more people will either end up having to spending more of their income on cigarettes and endure the legalised discrimination, or change to cheaper filterless cigarettes or ang hoon, and end up increasing their risks of succumbing to lung cancer or some similar medical equivalent.
whoopie.
that being said, "thank you for smoking" is indeed, a brilliant show. it doesn't actually encourage or discourage smoking per se, but it offers a good insight as to how people like... say, lawyers might work.
# posted by Kitana @ 7/09/2006 08:54:00 PM 
