For the past few weeks, Mr. Louis Ng Kok Kwang from Nee Soon East has been passionately advocating against the dangers of secondhand smoke, urging the government to take action to protect Singaporeans’ health. While we commend Mr. Louis for his unwavering dedication to this crucial issue, we believe that banning smoking at windows and […]
As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on yet another disappointing year where no significant progress was made to protect secondhand smoke victims in their own homes, despite a change in leadership. Throughout the year, several notable cases underscored the dire consequences of secondhand smoke. Bedok Fire Caused by Lit Cigarette Butt One such […]
I have a smoking neighbor who lives across my unit but I was never bothered by his smoke until I started to work from home (WFH) during the lockdown period of Covid-19. The smoker was working from home too as I could see him in his opened windows and door. He started to smoke randomly […]
I’m a full-time homemaker staying in a five-room HDB flat with my parents and two children. We have been facing the secondhand smoke problem for about five years already. It’s frustrating that we have to breathe in secondhand smoke from our smoking neighbours every day. None of our family members smoke as we want to […]
Living with a chain-smoking neighbour is already a nightmare and being surrounded by multiple chain-smoking neighbours in a HDB flat is even worse than living in hell. Smoky, hazy, smelly, and choking are daily experiences. It is worse at night when the smokers are having a smoking marathon till the wee hours of the next […]