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Singapore's New Chewing Gum
Banning heat-not-burn tobacco devices is illogical on many levels.
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Back in 1992, Singapore feared that its gleaming new subway would be wrecked by people using something sticky to disable automatic train doors — so it banned chewing gum.
Twenty-six years later, the prohibition on the import, manufacture and sale of gum is still in place,1519182610844 even though the utility of that harsh curb has never really been proved: Hong Kong's MTR Corp. hasn't seen the need to restrict mastication to run a rail network many times more reliable than Singapore's.