(Singapore) It's time to relook our anti-smoking strategy

[ezmoose]

TODAYonline | Voices | It's time to relook our anti-smoking strategy

Then, we should ensure that the smokers limit the damage they do to themselves. Passive smoking is harmful to innocent bystanders and there are measures in place to protect them. As such, we might also want to reconsider the ban on smokeless products as a means of allowing smokers to get their nicotine fix without harming non-smokers.

Hey, there's an idea!

 

[kristin]

Instead, to counter the use of these products to entice people to smoke, we could limit their availability via medical prescription in the same way that chewing gum and ...... are.

So, make them legal, but more difficult and expensive to get than cigarettes. Furthermore, why would smokeless products "entice people to smoke?" Completely illogical.

Commented:

So, make smokeless tobacco legal, but more difficult and expensive to get than cigarettes? Why would smokers choose them then? Furthermore, why would smokeless products "entice people to smoke?" Completely illogical.

Smokeless tobacco is SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN to be 98-99% safer than cigarettes. There is NO scientific basis to believe smokeless use leads to smoking - quite the opposite.

If the Singapore government really wishes to reduce smoking and improve the health of its citizens, they would make smokeless alternatives, such as snus and electronic cigarettes, cheaper and more readily available than cigarettes and encourage their use. That action would not only improve the health of smokers, it would reduce the number of new smokers and all but eliminate second-hand smoke issues.

Yes, it IS time to rethink anti-smoking strategy. Anti-smoking does not have to mean anti-nicotine. Having that attitude is what keeps people using cigarettes. There will always be nicotine users and by forbidding access to safer nicotine sources, the government and public health groups are only accomplishing one thing - leaving deadly cigarettes as the only available nicotine source.

 

[Zeroi]

So, make them legal, but more difficult and expensive to get than cigarettes. Furthermore, why would smokeless products "entice people to smoke?" Completely illogical.

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I agree with you and i believe the Smokless tobacco is not really selling good etc, i don't even know they are make available in Singapore.

Well now in singapore, only nicorette Nicotine inhaler is Legally sold in Phamacy. Goverment did not have Strict Rules over those as Non-smoker can buy them and the pharmacy don't even bother how old the buyer neither do they care if the buyer is a smoker.

I think E-Cig should not be that strict rules make, i have quit smoking because of E-Cig and not those Nicorette nicotine inhaler (This taste Awful).

Hence Nicotine inhaler is doing a lot of advert, they asking people to (join the Quitters). that is a good advert which attract some i guess maybe their market now is bad that why.

 

[cy1970]

just wonder whether our extraordinary government will listen to the feedback...

but without e-cig, I doubt i could smoke free for the past 30days after 25 years of smoking life..
it is not just the nicotine addiction, but the act of smoking which e-cig really fit well to "heal" me.

PS: Now i am vaping 0mg nicotine when typing this post

 

[Zeroi]

Singapore have a SG Vaper Club, I sincerely invite u all to join.