When I was paying for my purchase at NTUC FairPrice, I saw that the cigarettes shelf was completely covered with a white piece of paper, and on that paper was written:
31 May
World No Tobacco Day
I didn’t know such a day existed, until today. Wikipedia says that the WHO created it in 1987.
It’s a farce, I tell you.
Such a day is created ostensibly as a form of discouragement to smoking, and yet, tobacco companies are allowed to exist and to continue their harmful trade.
Put simply, it’s hypocrisy. Bullshit.
Akin to placing gory images on cigarette boxes, in a kind of half-fucked effort to discourage, when we all know how little the effect of that would be, and when the obvious, right thing (think “white”) to do is to ban it altogether, that is, its production at the global level and its import at the local level.
But of course, politicians would cringe at the thought of losing the bribes of tobacco companies and lucrative tax revenues. So grey the world remains.
