Fewer flout smoking ban at coffee shops
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Feb 22, 2011 - Straits Times
THAT cloud of smoke over your neighbour-hood coffee shop is thinning. Fewer people are lighting up in defiance of the smoking ban at coffee shops, hawker centres and entertainment outlets, latest figures show.
The figures, released by the National Environment Agency (NEA) in response to queries from The Straits Times, showed a drop in the number of people booked for smoking at these places.
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Bcos cigarettes are too expensive to smoke. Nowadays people buy A4 paper roll it up and pretend to smoke.
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times are bad.
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Feb 26, 2011 - ST Forum
Smoking blues at coffee shops
DESPITE fewer people flouting the smoking ban at coffee shops, non-smokers are still inhaling second-hand smoke in such places ("Fewer flout smoking ban at coffee shops"; Tuesday).
I was having breakfast at a non-air-conditioned coffee shop along Casuarina Road one morning when, to my dismay, cigarette smoke from a client at one table strayed to where my family and I sat, three to four tables away.
When I informed the shop owner, I was told that the smoker was sitting at a designated smoking table.
I described the problem of stray smoke to the National Environment Agency (NEA) and it replied that while it would review the designated smoking area with the shop owner, the area was in an ideal location.
Subsequently, NEA indicated that the designated smoking tables were generally located as far away as possible from non-smoking tables. However, the designated smoking tables were just next to the non-smoking tables in this case.
If the no-smoking law is meant to protect the public from harmful second-hand smoke, allowing designated smoking tables within coffee shops will not help.
While the law allows designated smoking areas within coffee shops, it does not mean this is feasible in all coffee shops, as in the case of those along Casuarina Road.
Gregory Goh
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Seem like more and more pple smoke while walking and smoke while inside the lift.
I think the authorities should impose some form of fine on them.
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jack the cigar prices up further
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ban tobacco.. govt no tax cannot.