Debunking smokers’ views


MANY of us who are members of tobacco control groups in Malaysia are holding our hopeful breaths after the deputy health minister announced that his ministry would push to gazette all open-air restaurants as no-­­smo­king areas, “No smoking at open-air eateries” (The Star, Sept 7).

But why are we not having a full blown celebration, one may ask? After all, tobacco control groups have been urging the government to do this for years.

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