Wanted: A Healthier Indonesia

Anti-smoking rules are futile if raids enforcing them are only half serious. Such publicity campaign must not go on for long.

November 25, 2008

IMAGINE. You are in a hospital and you see a 17-year-old boy smoking in the waiting room among patients waiting their turn to be treated. You summon up the courage to admonish the smoker. There are three possible outcomes: he apologizes and moves 2 meters away but continues to smoke, he pretends to be deaf and continues to smoke, or he takes a drag and blows the smoke in your face.

Smokers in Indonesia have been treated too indulgently. They feel

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