Selling contact lenses online in Singapore is now seen to be a way to make some quick cash for teenagers: http://www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20111030-307798.html However, thanks to the actions of Custom officers, at least three teenage 'blogshop' owners have had their contact lenses seized. There is quite a risk in this form of entrepreneurship, as blogshop owners found guilty of illegally importing lenses such as South Korean iris-enlarging examples could face a $50,000 fine and two years in jail. The Health Sciences Authority has stepped up checks because of a recent spate of cases of counterfeit lenses. Rather than going to jail, perhaps the teenagers could be encouraged to study optometry/optics and go on to use their interest in contact lenses and ply their trade legitimately?
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