This ordinance is exemplary and laudable, beneficial to the health of the public. However, this is my first time to hear a complete smoking ban. In Singapore where I used to work, which for me should be a model for implemennting "no smoking", they have smoking spots all over the state and rooms in shopping malls and buildings catering the need of the smokers.
This complete ban opens opportunities of irresponsible individuals to smuggle cigarettes especially in the barangays where police presence is absent. The ingenious Filipinos will find a way to bring in cigarettes discretely because there is a market. This is a mistake of the municipal government for not foreseeing the influx of illegal activities related to the cigarette smuggling. The intention is right but it lacks the foresight of possible issues related to the ban.
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