What Its All About?

• boyboy18

  3 Mar 05, 19:48

  Should government stopped themselves from allowing cigarettes to enter Singapore rather then banning here and there and raising prices?gives your views
• crazy monkey

  3 Mar 05, 20:18

  they dun ban because can collect tobacco tax.
• Sing_Sling

  3 Mar 05, 20:40

  If any government is serious about their populations health they would ban cigerattes and alcohol.
  
  Having said that, tax revenues are a mighty big argument against banning - at least the SG g'ment makes them very expensive - not like in Thailand or Malaysia where the death rate attributed to cigs and alc are many times greater than here.
• shade343

  3 Mar 05, 20:51

  If ciggarettes were to be banned, the government must be able to recoup the taxes from another area.
• yoongf

  3 Mar 05, 20:59

  Governance is not about removing the freedom of choice. Everything is about balance, compromise. Therefore, it goes against the fabric of society to ban.
  
  It's all about balancing good and evil. Thankfully, there is more goodness than evil in this society.
  
  
• crazy monkey

  3 Mar 05, 21:00

  Originally posted by shade343:

  If ciggarettes were to be banned, the government must be able to recoup the taxes from another area.

  kopi tax ?
• boyboy18

  4 Mar 05, 12:21

  I think prices of various will somehow rise again,although economy is bad during few years back,GST still increase,so does cigarettes price,bus fares,medical fees,sch fees