Smoke ban begs enforcement
by Sh. G. F. Haddad
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

The Brunei Times
Tuesday, April 29, 2008


A GLANCE at smokers in our midst at any time of the day or night reveals that the ruling of haram ("categorically prohibited") — which is the prevalent ruling today concerning the smoking of tobacco — has yet to sink in. There is still hardly any public stigma attached to the act of lighting up and blasting fumes of junk into our lungs and the lungs of those near us, even — of all places and times — in mosque courtyards before the night mass prayer in the sacred month of Ramadan.


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