What do you feel about the smoking ban after a year?
Given the prevalence of restaurants that either choose not to obey the law or have been granted the 2009 waiver by misrepresenting the degree to which their establishment is a bar, it's hard to notice that much has changed.
And what about queues and footpaths? Given the close quarters imposed by our cramped streets, it is easy to find oneself trapped while waiting in line for a taxi or simply trying to advance on a slow-moving pavement. The body of evidence challenging the old assumption that outdoor second-hand smoke is not a health hazard continues to mount.
And that's for normal cities. In anything-but-normal Hong Kong, with so many tall buildings erected without consideration of city air flow, the dissipation of toxins takes a lot longer.
The Sunday Morning Post reminded readers of Hong Kong's low rank in Mercer Human Resource Consulting's international quality of living survey, compared with Singapore's top-50 position ('HK vs Lion City: not just a numbers game', December 23).
Sadly, smoking is an area in which Hong Kong is on the back end of social progress. It is not surprising, given the lack of consideration people show each other here, that our smokers still think their right to light up supersedes others' right to healthier air.