At 6am, when Mrs Doris Tan and her husband rouse two of their three children from sleep to get ready for school, they are greeted by smoke that drifts into the master bedroom of their five-room Housing Board flat in Hougang.
The source - cigarette smoke from the neighbour living in the unit directly above them.
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