Smoking in public places and inside shopping centres has drastically dropped over the past few years, thanks to the government’s crackdown. However, many residents have raised concern over the increasing number of smokers puffing away at the entrances of shopping malls and other public locations. The Peninsula noticed that shopping malls allowed their visitors to smoke cigarettes and pipes freely at the entrances of their facilities. “We do not have a designated area for smoking at the facility so you can smoke there – barely a few metres from the entrance and butt out in the dustbin,” a security man at a shopping complex in the Old Airport area said when he was asked about the smoking p... [Read more]