Smoking Kills
...e adverse effects can be more hazardous to the non-smokers than to the smokers themselves. How effective are the laws on prohibiting the smokers from smoking in public? People who smoke in public usually have no regard for the rights and anxieties of the non-smokers. To say that they are ignorant of the bad effects on the non-smokers is not true any more as there has been widespread “TAK NAK” anti-smoking campaign which was launched in February 2004. It all boils down to their apathy. After all, they seem to get away with it as enforcement of the laws is not that effective. This explains why in public buildings like the hospital, railway station and airport, we still find people puffing away without the slightest concern for others nor the ban against smoking. Advertisements which openly publicised the brand names of cigarettes, albeit through a different form of presentation, should also be banned from the mass media. There is no purpose in banning cigarettes advertisements only to have those companies advertising various holiday packages using the...