Smoke screen and red herring - PAP speciality

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

Government policies are not free from contradictions either. Take the ERP for example. It is meant to regulate traffic flow but when all the roads leading to the CBD are littered with ERP gates, this policy just doesn’t make sense though it does make cents, loads of it. The government will try to brush all this contradictory policies as the need to make unpopular decisions for the benefit of the country and people. But we still see them as the government’s unabashed act of milking money at the expense of the people.

Recently the government decided to impose a ban on shisha, the reason being smoking is bad for health. Fine, so does eating mutton soup. And in its reaction to some of the criticisms, the government brandished the `we are a responsible government not afraid to impose unpopular policies blah blah blah’ card. Again fine, except that cigarettes are being sold openly all over the island. If smoking is bad, why are cigarettes being sold?

If you look at the cigarettes packaging, there is a warning accompanying a revolting picture of a patient suffering from some kind of smoking-related disease to send a message that smoking is dangerous. That it is life-threatening. That it is deadly. In fact, the message is so clear and succinct to suggest that cigarettes should be included in the Poisons Act.

So the question is; what sort of a responsible government would allow poisons to be sold openly to the people.....http://thesingaporebeacon.wordpress....d-red-herring/


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