MP’s wants authorities to ban smoking in one’s own homes, after complaints from residents of the health risk involved.
As parliament passed an amendment to the prohibition of smoking corners. The govt will have the power to ban places into no-smoking zones at the same time giving enforcing officers more power.
MP stated that this bill has “failed to address secondhand smoke from neighbours’ homes.”
“We are now doing a lot to protect people from secondhand smoke in public areas,” Nee Soon GRC MP Louis Ng said. “But the concern which has been raised in this House before is: What are we doing to protect people from secondhand smoke in their own homes?”
Next thing you know, you see NEA officer’s stepping into your home and giving you a fine.
I think we should give our smoker friends a bit of space. If you start all this enforcement, just ban cigarettes. But you can’t cause the money earned from taxes is too attractive.
I don’t smoke and neither do I condone smoking but seriously, curb it at HOME? Isn’t that invading a person’s privacy? Where are the smokers gonna smoke? Is this a way to fine them even more? Kesian… haiz.. Stop selling it then or just ban them totally then!