Why SG cannot can cigarette?

[_eMuu_]

SG can ban chewing gum.
SG can ban Vape.

But cannot ban cigarette.
Littering problem. health problem. Air pollution problem. created more problems than chewing gum and vape combine.

Is it really all about money?

 

[grevq80o]

SG can ban chewing gum.
SG can ban Vape.

But cannot ban cigarette.
Littering problem. health problem. Air pollution problem. created more problems than chewing gum and vape combine.

Is it really all about money?

because none of PAP has IRON IN THEM.
If they do so they will offend a lot of people.. including PAP's supporters and society deeply funded by tobacco money..

A lot of people I also mean people from overseas.. a lot of foreigners smoke. and almost every chinese man from china smokes. In China, men can go without alcohol but never without cigarettes.

and also it is not about $. PAP just got 9% GST .. and SG Gov is flushed with $. What PAP wants is FOREVER POWER, forever absolute power. That could probably means they cannot ban smoking.

 

[エステ好きな野郎]

SG can ban chewing gum.
SG can ban Vape.

But cannot ban cigarette.
Littering problem. health problem. Air pollution problem. created more problems than chewing gum and vape combine.

Is it really all about money?

Yes.

Cos if you ban cigarettes might as well ban alcohol.

 

[arcturuz]

because can

 

[cet87]

because none of PAP has IRON IN THEM.
If they do so they will offend a lot of people.. including PAP's supporters and society deeply funded by tobacco money..

A lot of people I also mean people from overseas.. a lot of foreigners smoke. and almost every chinese man from china smokes. In China, men can go without alcohol but never without cigarettes.

and also it is not about $. PAP just got 9% GST .. and SG Gov is flushed with $. What PAP wants is FOREVER POWER, forever absolute power. That could probably means they cannot ban smoking.

power at all means..

 

[idolcritic]

 

[grevq80o]

power at all means..

PAP used to have a policy "growth at all cost" .. ya.. that is partially fulfilled by LHL's open leg immgration policy that saw double digit growth of foreigners for 2 consecutive years in 2007 and 2008 (go check census).... that was the time when cheap labor flood into SG and Malaysians and even mainland Chinese (esp those who studied in SG), get PR with 3 months.. AND , PR can buy flat DIRECT from HDB.

 

[coyote]

SG can ban chewing gum.
SG can ban Vape.

But cannot ban cigarette.
Littering problem. health problem. Air pollution problem. created more problems than chewing gum and vape combine.

Is it really all about money?

You don't smoke right?

 

[_eMuu_]

Will it really crash the tourism?

Or boost tourism? When people hear SG is a no smoking country. More people might want to come SG.

 

[deathan9el]

the letters C & B just one key apart but still ...

 

[Vagrant_Oldman]

$3.2b in tobacco duties collected between 2022 and 2024: Jeffrey Siow

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/tobacco-duties-revenue-2022-2024

 

[5adisticD3vil]

everything is bout money
just how naive are you sia

 

[coyote]

Brother you are rather strange.

You don't drive, yet you asked why cannot change all cars to EV. You don't smoke, yet you asked why not ban smoking.

Do you drink? Why not ban alcohol?

So what do you do normally? KTV? How about you start a thread asking why not ban KTV?

If you don't drive, don't smoke, don't drink, don't go ktv or drinking, what are you living for? If others enjoying all those, why would you want to deny others? Isn't that a selfish thinking?

 

[Ubi-Warrior]

SG can ban chewing gum.
SG can ban Vape.

But cannot ban cigarette.
Littering problem. health problem. Air pollution problem. created more problems than chewing gum and vape combine.

Is it really all about money?

Ban vape?

How come people still doing?

 

[swenson]

Yes its the tax $$, and its not just sinkapore

cannot think of any country has banned ciggy and alcohol. Yes, banned in certain establishment but not outright ban

 

[tomsss]

the letters C & B just one key apart but still ...

TS finger is this size:

 

[Ubi-Warrior]

PAP used to have a policy "growth at all cost" .. ya.. that is partially fulfilled by LHL's open leg immgration policy that saw double digit growth of foreigners for 2 consecutive years in 2007 and 2008 (go check census).... that was the time when cheap labor flood into SG and Malaysians and even mainland Chinese (esp those who studied in SG), get PR with 3 months.. AND , PR can buy flat DIRECT from HDB.

Yes , that was an unfortunate couple of years where the Govt dug a very big hole that we still not out of.

 

[Ubi-Warrior]

Yes its the tax $$, and its not just sinkapore

cannot think of any country has banned ciggy and alcohol. Yes, banned in certain establishment but not outright ban

Muslim countries for Alcohol

 

[born2fly]

Ban all alcohol make girl cover their face like some middle east country much better

 

[grevq80o]

Yes , that was an unfortunate couple of years where the Govt dug a very big hole that we still not out of.

The key learning point is that PAP only changed policy when they lost Aljunied GRC and George Yeo is given the greatest career boost after that. LKY offered Yeo top job at GLC but Yeo turned down....

That why power speaks to power. For PAP who has absolute power, the only way for PAP to listen is to have another party with enough real power - unfortunately that means PAP has to lose parliament seats i.e. lose power since politic is a zero sum game....