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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

I swear the Singapore Government is going too far with their anti-smoking campaign. Right now, sitting on my desk is a pack of Dunhill reds, with a picture of a bloody and deformed foetus with a huge head coloured in a hue or red that makes it look like those little red octopuses that the Japanese love to eat. It's definitely gross. Sometimes, when scare tactics go too far, the people have to speak out. The previous ones were ok and made people think about quitting, but the new ones really makes smokers lose their appetite, but not the urge to smoke. I can safely say that non-smokers would also be turned off by the sight of such a gruesome picture, as it's also rather insensitive to women who have had miscarriages before. If the government really wants to get people to quit, I'm sure there are alternative methods, instead of plastering such disgusting pictures on the cover of the pack.

And I'm sure it's clear to everyone that the government is earning millions from cigarette taxes a year. It's only to pacify the anti-smoking lobby that they actually paste such distasteful pictures on the boxes. In a way, they appear to want to stop people from smoking. But with each increase in cigarette prices, they earn more from the tax. In every aspect they win, and each time they win more. So we smokers suffer while the government lines its deep pockets with the money of smokers. And in a way, we can say that we're fueling the economy with our habit. So fuck those assholes who complain about smokers not doing anything but harming society.

Kenny died at 12:33 am