[Manthink]

It actually shows how shallow our govt can be.  The picture shows a hard labourer and frankly in that period of history everyone smokes. For hard labourers, smoking is but a form of escape from reality. Asking the artist to change it is like rewriting history and trying to make everything look nice. Fallacy and simply lack of authenticity. It's like saying there's no crime, no vices and Singapore is perfectly clean. If so please ban sale of cigarettes and don't need to collect taxes on it since you ban sales of it.

Which part of the Mr Dunston painting (which he named "Samsui woman at rest" has any histroical value in SG context ?

That she is slim, fair, pretty and smoke like seductive prostitute when looking at an angmoh   ?