Is smoking allowed at bus shelters, or is it not? CONFUSED!!!

The recent extension of the No-Smoking Law to cover more buildings, shopping centres and many other premises was a positive step towards a cleaner and healthier environment.

But, as I always say, ''Rules are just rules unless they are enforced. So are the laws''. I am surprised to see big garbage bin being placed in many bus shelters and there is a special metal tray for cigarette butts, attached to it.

The implementer of this law expects smokers to smoke there, it seems!

By law, smokers are banned from smoking within the bus shelters. Why is the tray still provided for the cigarette butts and worse, such a bin is placed right within the bus shelter? Those cigarette butts that are not stubbed out completely sometimes would emit smokes that are polluting the environment and hazardous to health.

The law and its practice don't seem to synchronise. It appears to be ambiguous, in fact. The smokers, if caught, can argue that trays are provided for them to throw their cigarette butts, so they presume that it is alright to smoke there.

Perhaps, it is this sort of ambiguity that keeps the lawyers in business!