More organisations should ban smoking on their grounds

I refer to the letters by Ms Coral Ang, "The no-smoking path" (Oct 17), and Mr Muhammad Haziq Jani, "The no-smoking path is Utopia" (Oct 18).

Like Ms Ang, I am in favour of smoking being banned completely at certain public places. Perhaps Mr Muhammad Haziq has not heard of passive smoking. Just to breath in cigarette smoke from someone puffing away in close proximity is detrimental to one's health.

While denying work permits or citizenship to smokers may sound too extreme, it may help if there are more rules as to which places are okay for smoking. For example, should smoking while walking be allowed?

As an ex-student of SIM University, I was happy to read in its newsletter that smoking has been banned entirely in its campus.

Others should follow suit and lead by example, to prevent more people from suffering unwittingly from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, as many go undiagnosed. I would therefore agree that smoking requires more regulation.