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Peddlers of Chewing Tobacco Play Cat-And-Mouse Game – ST

Peddlers in Little India area of Singapore usually approach foreign workers returning from work in the evenings, the report said


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While the sale of chewing tobacco was outlawed in 2016 in Singapore, it is a common activity, according to a few shopowners in Chandler Road and Desker Road. Photo: AFP

 

A cat-and-mouse games is being played out daily in Little India, the Straits Times reported.

While they appear to be carefree and loitering harmlessly, some men who walk the busy roads, side streets and alleyways in the area are actually peddlers of chewing tobacco who are a part of a network that also include lookouts.

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.