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Time to do more to stub out smoking in Singapore?
The Jan 1 raising of the minimum age limit for smoking to 21 is the latest step to manage the harm of tobacco, following measures over the years to shrink the space you can take a puff in public. But some feel more needs to be done to weed out the habit.
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A sign in a convenience store at Bedok Interchange Food Centre showing the updated minimum age of 21 for people buying tobacco products. Other measures in the Government's anti-smoking arsenal include public education, taxation, cessation programmes and standardised packaging.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Justin Ong
What started as a curiosity for a 16-year-old, wanting to be cool and fit in with friends, quickly turned into a full-blown habit. Today, Chris is a self-confessed smoking addict.
That is not his real name and with reason: As of two days ago, the full-time national serviceman, now 20, became guilty of underage smoking.
