Here’s an interesting anti-smoking ads that shows the danger of cigarette smoking. I was browsing around the net when I chance upon this ad. Good laugh for me and it brings back memories of falling balconies at my work place a few years ago.

There were a row of balconies on one site of a JTC flatted factory building, block 998 (now renamed Mapletree Industrial) Toa Payoh North, Singapore to be précised. They were meant to be the fire exit corridors for the units located on that side of the building. They call came tumbling down one early morning and it was good thing that no one got hurt.

If my memory didn’t fail me, the reason it came tumbling down was because there were no reinforcements built into those fire escape corridors so they were not meant to support heavy weights. There were also air-con compressors installed there and overtime, the corridors cannot take the weight and it gave way. All fire exit corridors have been rebuilt since then with reinforcements and I can see people standing along them smoking from time to time.

Anyway, back to this video. The danger of cigarette smoking out on a corridor is very real to me because of that incident. If it did happen with casualties really out for a smoke break at that time, then this video won’t be laughing matter anymore. You can die of some hidden/unknown dangers of cigarette smoking, like falling balconies.

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