Ciggie Boxes in Singapore

Singapore followed Thailand's anti-smoking campaign (since 2004) and came up with their set of collector's item cigarette boxes!

What they don't realize is that the price itself was scary enough.

Pisanu's SMOKEY TALES

A collection of encounters, thoughts and funny tales. These are blog posts too short to have their own titles.



Whenever me and Sofia have to share a hotel room, I am not allowed to smoke in the bathroom. She will bark for hours if she smells the dang smoke when I get out of the pooh-pooh room. Waha!

Just this morning, I accidentally found a solution.

I splattered CreamSilk conditioner (which I bought in Manila) on my hair while secretly smoking in the bathroom. When I opened the door, ready to take the wrath of Sofia...she called out…

“OMG! What shampoo did you use?!! Smells soooo terrific! Smells like fresh flowers in there! I luuurrrrvvv it!”

Haha! Now I can smoke in the bathroom till kingdom come. *and I don’t even know why I posted this. Darn.*

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Speaking of smoking… anyone of you heard of Champix?

It’s a drug regimen (legal!) which supposed to help you/me/us/them QUIT smoking.

Mother sent me 2 months worth of tablets, because she wanted me to stop the habit but…

Dad emailed me an article from America that Champix is being recalled (?) because it was making users depressed and there were 3 suicide incidences leading to the drug. Side effects include ulcers, loss of vision and vertigo. *I can take the ulcer and vertigo but LOSS OF VISION?!!!!* Yeah, my lungs are healthy but I won’t see any darn thing! Ha!

Ma, I flushed the Champix on the toilet this morning just in case I would have the urge to take it. Thanks anyway.

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Mother, my brother and other friends including enemies say:

“Quit smoking, $%*&)=+@!!!”

Dad and I say: “Yeah, right. Die anyway."


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I met a dude on the beach the other day. He looks like a bum – homeless, dirty, skinny, dry skin and all… unhealthy...the total package.

Absolute curious cat that I am…I made an effort to make a conversation with the sickly dude.

“Dude, maybe you should quit smoking till you get well.” I said with genuine concern and much irony to myself.

He said “No, I don’t smoke. Never did.”

“Oh! Ok. Maybe you should stop drinking…or maybe stop going out to parties at night.” I said looking away.

“No, I don’t drink. And I don’t even have money and friends to go out with.”

My vision was blurring in confusion. “You don’t smoke. You don’t drink nor go out to party at night?” I took out my camera-phone…

He shook his head and silently said …”No.” He was looking at my cam-phone.

“You mind if I take your photo? I’ll give you money…”

“What for?” the dude looked straight at me.

“I just wanna show my mother what happens to people who don’t smoke, don't drink and don't party.”

He let me take his photo for US$ 1. Mother, check your email.

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KILL ME! KILL ME! JUST KILL ME NOW!

There's this tiny little German brewery pub on Ram Inthra Road attempting a publicity stunt. What's with the crap of banning smoking in their pub? Are they trying to set a trend in Bangkok? It's all over the papers! Goddamit! And I hate to see and hear rubbish like this! I really hope they are not wanting to set a trend!

If Thailand adapts something like what Ireland, Norway and Bhutan is doing, this tiny little pub is gonna hear from me with all my smoking wrath!

I also heard from one of our blogmate Sanne, that Singapore is going to do the same stunt. It gives me the creeps imagining myself in my favorite weekend destination, partying like hell, boozing like a fish AND CAN'T f*cken SMOKE? Waaaaaah!

NO! NO! NO! PLEASE THAILAND, PLEASE. DON'T DO THIS TO ME!

If something like this happen here, I'm gonna move to Malaysia en sequida! At least they would only kill me with the prices of their cigarettes. OH! Oh! Better move to the Philippines! Cigarettes there are f*cken cheap and they don't have this shitty-no-smoking-in-pubs bullshit! YEAH! I'm moving to the Philippines!

Why are they suddenly being cruel to SMOKERS? We f*cken pay taxes too! Do we ask money from non-smokers to buy OUR cigarettes? Do we steal and rob the banks to buy our f*cken cigarettes? Do we smuggle people for illegal labour just to have money and buy cigarettes? No! This is my lungs and I would do whatever I want to it! F*cken out! I'm really pissed now!

I'm not gonna even start on responsible smoking issue. Hell no! I'm a long time smoker and I know the etiquettes and shits. No need to lecture me on that!

Oh! I GOT AN IDEA! -- Why don't you just put us smokers all in one island and nuke us to smitherines? Huh? Huh?!!

YOU WON'T? -- It's a violation of human rights you say?--and not allowing us to smoke isn't? %*@# you! Argh!

There. Take that!

--by Pisanu