Live Issue... Shock tactics scare viewers but produce few results

It's not often that the stuff of Singaporean TV is scary enough to cause nightmares. But in March this year, complaints flooded in regarding 30 seconds of airtime that were supposedly keeping children up all night: the latest anti-smoking campaign from the Health Promotion Board (HPB).

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