Monday, August 2, 2010
Flyers like chewing gum?
Wrigley, Dentyne, Trident and Extra are a few brands of chewing gum. I love chewing gums as I can blow a huge bubble with it. They are different flavors to choose from for example watermelon, apple, orange, mango and blueberry to name a few. However, chewing gums was ban in Singapore an only approved pharmacy are allowed to sell it for therapeutic value . The reason for the ban is that people do not dispose of their gum properly and like to stick it at chairs and tables. This have cause several complaints among the citizens about chewing gum sticking onto their hair or clothes.
What have flyers have in common with chewing gums? Well, like chewing gums, flyers can also be seen as something annoying and irritating. It serves for a temporary purpose which is to inform passer-by on whatever they have to offer and then they either end up on the floor or the garbage bin. Why is this so? In my opinion, I think that Singaporeans doesn't like to receive something that wont benefit them. For flyers, it may contain certain informations but it might not be important to the individual. The reason that they end up on the floor is that once passer-by receive the flyer, they intend to throw it away after reading it and if there's no garbage bin in sight, they will just let it slide off their hands.
So, should we ban flyers like we did with chewing gums? Is the severity of flyers the same as that of chewing gums? I personally think that we should not ban flyers. It does not harm anyone when it is not dispose off properly. Yes, its true that it will create a mess if its not thrown into the garbage bin but that problem can be fix, for example, the government can educate the citizens on disposing the flyers properly or to take the flyers only if they need it.
Hence, I don't think that flyers is equal to chewing gums.
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