18 April 2022
The Customs Duties Order 2022 comes into effect on June 1, 2022; nicotine gum is a medical product for smoking cessation.
Tag: vape
5 April 2022
KPDNHEP gazetted an order on April 5 that will come into effect on August 3, 2022.
23 March 2022
The MOH’s proposed cohort smoking ban will only affect those who turn 18 next year, the current legal age for smoking.
16 March 2022
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.
11 March 2022
According to the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2019, 1.12 million people in Malaysia currently vape.
1 March 2022
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.
9 February 2022
Nurul Izzah Anwar supports the cohort smoking ban, but Ong Kian Ming says the Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill should go through the Health PSC first, while Charles Santiago moots a cost-benefit analysis.
21 December 2021
Big tobacco is transitioning from cigarettes to vape, e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn devices.
9 November 2021
Khairy Jamaluddin says the Poisons Act is being amended to be in line with current needs, but did not specify if the sale of nicotine by non-medical parties would be allowed after the government announced a tax on vaping liquids containing nicotine.
2 November 2021
The Federation of Private Medical Practitioners Associations Malaysia (FPMPAM) says the taxation levels for THR products in Malaysia must remain risk-proportionate, benchmarked against high-risk products such as cigarettes.