Tag: tobacco control

22 May 2023

Zaliha: Tobacco Bill Pending Cabinet Approval, MPs’ Votes Being Whipped

Dr Zaliha Mustafa says Cabinet will discuss the tobacco & vape bill this Friday. If the bill gets Cabinet approval, she will seek to table it in June. The health minister adds that she's working with party whips to get backbenchers to support the bill.

9 May 2023

Letter

Time To End Malaysia’s Cruel April Fool’s Nicotine Joke: Learning From Australia – Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak

While Australia bans disposable vapes and puts prescription vape in "pharmacy-like packaging" with flavour-free, plain packaged vapes, Malaysia uses a free-for-all vape strategy. Will the tobacco & vape bill end Malaysia's cruel April Fool's nicotine joke?

8 May 2023

Malaysia

Poll Shows Moderate Bipartisan Support For Tobacco And Vape Bill

In a CodeBlue poll of 31 MPs on both sides of the aisle, nearly half at 14 MPs – 6 (PH), 2 (BN), 1 (Muda), 1 (PBM), 4 (PN) – openly support the tobacco & vape bill. 15 MPs – 9 (PH), 1 (BN), 1 (Warisan), 4 (PN) – reserve their stand pending bill's tabling.

4 May 2023

Letter

‘Negara Nikotin’ May Soon Upend Malaysia Madani – Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak

Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak says nicotine is highly addictive, on par with heroin and cocaine. More girls are vaping. Today, after the delisting of liquid nicotine, vaping is the new normal for children who were non-smokers.

8 April 2023

Malaysia

MCTC Admits ‘Little Success’ In Getting Reversal Of Nicotine Delisting

MCTC, an umbrella anti-tobacco body of 41 organisations, says it had "little success" in getting the government, including Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa, to reconsider the "poorly thought out move" of delisting liquid nicotine for taxation purposes.

8 April 2023

Malaysia

MMA Dissatisfied With MOH’s Explanation On Nicotine Exemption

MMA says Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa told health groups that she had signed off on the delisting of liquid nicotine with a "heavy heart" for the vape tax. "We have heard the ministry's explanation and still do not find the reasons given acceptable."

5 April 2023

Opinion

Nicotine Addiction: Malaysia’s End Game To Public Health

Until each MP discloses their stand, talk about May tabling of the smoking product bill remains smoke and mirrors. Every day, the government is creating new generations of nicotine addicts. The real end game, it turns out, is public health – not the GEG.

4 April 2023

Malaysia

Khairy: I Refused To Sign Order To Delist Liquid Nicotine

KJ says he refused to heed MOF's instruction to exempt liquid nicotine from the Poisons Act for tax, pending tobacco bill's passage. Health NGOs told him then: "The health minister who does this is a minister who does not care at all about public health".

3 April 2023

Opinion

CodeBlue’s View: Government Perpetuating Harm By Delisting Liquid Nicotine

The government must reverse the delisting of liquid nicotine to give itself time to draft a good tobacco & vape bill acceptable to most MPs, instead of trying to bulldoze through a badly drafted bill to close the gap in legislation created by the government itself.

3 April 2023

Malaysia

Liquid Nicotine Delisting ‘Most Ridiculous Public Health Policy’: Expert

Ex-Health deputy DG (public health) Prof Dr Lokman Hakim Sulaiman describes the delisting of liquid nicotine from the Poisons Act as the "most ridiculous public health policy decision I have ever seen" – "almost nearing stupidity in policymaking".

Tag: tobacco control

Zaliha: Tobacco Bill Pending Cabinet Approval, MPs’ Votes Being Whipped

Time To End Malaysia’s Cruel April Fool’s Nicotine Joke: Learning From Australia – Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak

Poll Shows Moderate Bipartisan Support For Tobacco And Vape Bill

‘Negara Nikotin’ May Soon Upend Malaysia Madani – Prof Dzulkifli Abdul Razak

MCTC Admits ‘Little Success’ In Getting Reversal Of Nicotine Delisting

MMA Dissatisfied With MOH’s Explanation On Nicotine Exemption

Nicotine Addiction: Malaysia’s End Game To Public Health

Khairy: I Refused To Sign Order To Delist Liquid Nicotine

CodeBlue’s View: Government Perpetuating Harm By Delisting Liquid Nicotine

Liquid Nicotine Delisting ‘Most Ridiculous Public Health Policy’: Expert

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