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Thursday, October 30, 2008It has just been announced by the ministry of health that cigarettes being distributed in the country now will not only have to include health warning notice on the boxes but also pictures of disease that will be caused by smoking.![]() (creepy pictures of lung failure and mouth cancer/ disease) ![]() (an example of failed tooth implant :D :D) In my opinion, no matter how many creepy pictures you are going to put on each box of these cigarettes, the smoker will never give a damn. You might wonder, why doesn't the government just ban the distribution of cigarettes or smoking in the country? Below are a few answers why the government still doesn't ban cigarettes yet. First, by banning cigarettes, the government will lose a big portion of the revenue they get from the tax on cigarettes. Second, employment issue. By banning cigarettes, a number of oversea-based cigarettes company will be forced to close down and that will cause existing employees of those company to lose their job and wander around the street. Third, smuggling. Even if the government were to ban cigarettes, being an 'open' country (as in so many waters surrounding both the Peninsular and East Malaysia) there will still be ways that cigarettes can get into our country. By that, not only the government will lost the contribution from tax on cigarettes but they will also need to handle the smuggling issue, is a 'lose-lose' situation to them. Last, the existence of such cigarettes. ![]() (ginseng flavoured cigarettes) |