Several local studies and a recent public survey by CodeBlue and the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy found significant prevalence of e-cigarette use among people who never smoked and in dual users of tobacco and vape.
Health experts say “it’s a matter of time” when researchers will be able to associate more diseases, including lung cancer, with e-cigarettes as was done with conventional cigarettes.
Although Khairy Jamaluddin can table the Tobacco Bill, which includes provisions on the generation smoking ban, anytime during the current Dewan Rakyat meeting, delaying it may increase chances of failed passage, like with the Act 342 amendment Bill in the last meeting.
In a CodeBlue-Galen poll, 90% of cigarette smokers, 92% of vape users, and all teen respondents support the proposed ban on the sale of cigarettes, tobacco, and vape to those born after 2005.