Cost of care more expensive than job losses


WE would like to respond to the letters “Tobacco is bad but industry creates jobs” and “Stop calling it kiddie pack” (The Star, Sept 14).

While we sympathise with Retrenched Worker who claims he lost his job due to declining sales in the tobacco industry, we can’t help but notice he contradicts himself by quoting Health Ministry figures that pointed out;

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