Cigarettes to bear the SDPC watermark

Hello kun, it is good to know that you have quit smoking. There are quicker ways of committing suicide.

haha.. Yeah, but all along i'm a healthy smoker lei.. lol

I was thinking the same thing as well.
I find the requirement for the receipt to be produced for cigarettes purchased overseas a little ridiculous.
I mean, the smokers are expected to be carrying the receipts everywhere they go when they smoke the unmarked cigarettes? It would be interesting to see all the different arguments that would come up when people are getting arrested.

Kun, there is such a thing as a 'Healthy" smoker?

yeah, and like what lordwarwizard says, if there are ple whom buy alot of cigarettes to stock up at home b4 the increase of price, will sure kena caught, because the government will never believe that all smokers are not hardcore smokers, and when the officers catch them, the offenders are always wrong no matter how right and valid their reasons are.. lol

Yeah, i'm one of them.. Because my fitness far surpasses most non smokers, and as a smoker in the past, i'm able to run and climb and jump, easily without any problems, as compared to some non smokers, i guess alot of them are not even half of my fitness.. lol=D And being smoker, i have not taken any mc for almost 5 yrs too.. SO am i consider as a healthy smoker?? haha

But now i have quitted smoking, still i'm healthy.. haha

Precisely. I mean, are we churning out too many policemen and policewomen that they are all having nothing better to do than to go around and check on people's cigarettes?

I am wondering, which wise butt scholar came up with this idea. And which other wise butt scholar approved this idea to implement it.
I wonder what kind of hide-and-seek is going to happen between the ah peks and the authorities when the new rule is implemented.

Beats me really. My brain is where it is supposed to be - up that and not down there so I am not a wise butt.

If the failures are on the customs department, then they should be bringing the customs department up to task. Rather than try to implement such a ruling. No?
Kinda like punishing the general public for the failure of one department. No?

I am not a smoker myself. But I do buy them for my father from time to time. And it is getting more and more painful on the pocket each time I do.

I am sure with this new ruling in place, a lot of night spots are going to be raided on a regular basis to collect fines.

yes the customs department did step up their enforcement actions. problem is, there are simply too many. i doubt our prisons are enough to house them even if all of them are caught. it's just like wild life protection, if the buying stops, the killing (importing) can too. that's why they are now targeting the end users instead. the rise in cigarette prices has never been attributed to enforcement. it's the government's way of 'helping' smokers to stop. being a smoker, i've been watching their rationale all these years.

Well, with this new implementation, instead of discouraging the smokers from smoking, it will only encourage them to look for alternatives.

What you will most likely to see is, more smokers will turn to rolling out their own ciggies with tobacco and paper.
IMHO, those smoking the rolled tobacco are the stinkiest!
As it is, the cigarettes are already not pleasant to smell when the smokers are smoking it. Those cheap tobacco which can be used to roll home-made cigarettes are going to be worse!

If a person is determined to smoke, no amount of enforcement is going to help in preventing them from doing it. No?

Yea. It seems like many smokers lack motivation to quit.

Majority tend to be inconsiderate too. I've seen many smoking in the presence of kids.

That is precisely what I am thinking as well. What is to prevent people from buying the boxed cigarettes to use those rolled ones instead?
How are they going to trace those?

I find this new exercise a little, well, what is a better word here... ridiculous!
But it is also making me interested to find out, what innovative ideas are the smugglers going to come up with when the new regulations are in place.

The smugglers probably have already purchased their own seal machine from a corrupt official. Not that you have any over there right?? Probably got it through the states.

Oh c'mon! Like that is going to make a difference!

What I find ridiculous with this rule is that they are going to be scrutinizing every stick of cigarette that you smoke.
And if you were to say buy a pack in Malaysia and bring the few unsmoked sticks back, you need to have a receipt to proof that you purchased. Wear it like a badge, you know.

I mean, the authorities have nothing better to do?
I am just going to see what kind of antics the people are going to get up to once the new rule is applied come January.

Lol, imagine this la.. if no Singaporeans are purchasing cigarettes here in Singapore any longer, instead every single smoker is spending their time in Malaysia rather than Singapore, contributing to Malaysia's economy, do you think then the Singapore government will be more relaxed?

They just want money, and if nobody is spending money on cigarettes here, then they will have no tax revenue. That's the thing. Anyway, it was just a little thought of mine, and like that's going to happen! Haha

I would sure like to see what would happen when the new rule come into enforcement. How many of the smokers will actually hold on to the receipts and bring them out whereever they go. And how will the officers differentiate from the genuine cases fro the fake ones? The hoo ha and the drama that follows with this implementation will be so so interesting!