The proposed anti-smoking bill will prohibit underage smokers from vaping or purchasing vape products, says Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa.
She also told reporters at the briefing after the anti-smoking bill was tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday (Nov 28) that the delisting of nicotine gel from the Poison’s Act 1954 had also left a loophole in regulating the use of nicotine gel, especially vape, and the provision to regulate vape was included to address the loophole.
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She also told reporters at the briefing after the anti-smoking bill was tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday (Nov 28) that the delisting of nicotine gel from the Poison’s Act 1954 had also left a loophole in regulating the use of nicotine gel, especially vape, and the provision to regulate vape was included to address the loophole.
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00:00 The proposed anti-smoking bill will prohibit underage smokers from vaping or purchasing
00:08 vape products.
00:09 Health Minister Dr Zaleha Mustafa said this would be among a list of other tobacco substitute
00:14 products that minors aged below 18 would not be able to purchase or use.
00:21 The Control of Smoking Products for Public Health 2023 Bill also prohibited the sale
00:26 of tobacco products, smoking substances or substitute tobacco products to minors.
00:32 She said this during a media briefing in Parliament on Tuesday that any substances or combination
00:38 of substances for smoking were part of the prohibited list.
00:42 These included substances such as nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerol and triethylene
00:48 glycol which were used in vape.
00:50 Dr Zaleha said the delisting of nicotine gel from the Poisons Act 1954 had also left a
00:57 loophole in regulating the use of nicotine gel, especially vape, and added that the provision
01:02 to regulate vape was included to address the loophole.
01:07 Meanwhile the regulation of smoking devices would fall under the Domestic Trade and Cost
01:11 of Living Ministry.
01:13 The bill was tabled for the first reading in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday as the government
01:18 attempted for the third time to legislate the anti-smoking law.
01:22 The generational endgame or GEG element which sought to ban those born in 27 and onwards
01:28 from smoking or purchasing smoking products had been done away with.
01:33 Instead, the new version of the bill prohibited the sale of tobacco products, smoking substances
01:38 or substitute tobacco products or provide any services for smoking to a minor.
01:44 Persons who bought tobacco products, smoked substances or substitute tobacco products
01:48 would be fined not more than 500 ringgit or be ordered to the community service pursuant
01:54 to the Criminal Procedure Code or the Child Act 21.
01:59 According to Clause 13, Subsection 2, Subsection A of the proposed bill, a person found to
02:04 have committed an offence of selling tobacco products, smoking substances or substitutes
02:09 to smoking products or providing any services for smoking to a minor would be fined not
02:15 more than 20,000 ringgit or imprisoned for not more than a year or both.
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