I used to go to a gym everyday, and while coming out after my exercise session, I used to see people sitting and smoking in clusters. I don't understand why people go to a gym when they are in the habit of causing great harm to their and other people's health by smoking. Once when I took a ferry to cross a river, almost 90 percent of the men on board started smoking ignoring the fact that there were small children all around them. Such smokers deserve to be punished.

Sen, on China Daily website

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(China Daily 09/21/2012 page9)