Unsustainable lifestyle continues

Unsustainable lifestyle continues

Friday May 31, was the World No Tobacco Day. But at noon after the first round of debate when delegates flowed out of conference rooms it became all too apparent that smokers were oblivious of this fact.

Indonesians were seen enjoying a puff as they mingled with smokers of all kinds of nationalities roaming the lobbies of the Bali International Conference Center.

And while the conference is about sustainable development it was not clear whether the issue contributed to breaking the global habit of smoking the cancer sticks.

Out of the world's 1.1 billion smokers, 6.6 percent are Indonesians, according to the World Bank.

In Bali at the lunch break, talks on sustainable development is taking a back seat while smokers adopt an unsustainable lifestyle -- at least for the time it takes to smoke a cigarette.