End of Smoking in Malaysia : Malaysia Banning Tobacco and Vape Products to anyone born after 2005.

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Cabinet approves Bill to ban smoking yesterday, says Khairy​

By Hana Naz Harun, Tengku Zarith Sofia
July 14, 2022 @ 12:39pm

KUALA LUMPUR: The Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill was approved by the Cabinet yesterday, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

He said the bill would go before the Parliament for debate in the upcoming session, which starts next Monday.

In a short response to the media, Khairy said: "The tobacco bill was approved by the cabinet yesterday. We will be submitting it to Parliament for this session."

The proposed Tobacco and Smoking Control law contains clauses to prohibit the sale of cigarettes, tobacco and vape products to anyone born after 2005.

Traders and cigarette vendors will not be allowed to sell smoking products to the people covered by the ban.

Khairy previously said the proposed generational smoking ban was the next step towards reducing cancer cases and improving cancer treatment access in the country.

He also said once the law was passed, Malaysia would become the first country in the world to enact a tobacco generational endgame legislation.

He said if nothing was done to overcome the smoking problem in the country, the habit would cost the government RM8 billion to treat lung cancer, heart problems and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by 2030.

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[Confuseous]

Typical screwed up way of doing things in Malaysia - tobacco industry must have refused to pay higher
protection money to the minister. They don't know the meaning of "wholistic" approach. Remember the
Selangor MB who went out on a Sunday morning, painted yellow bus-lanes and expected all vehicles
to respect the "bus lanes"?

 

[bushtucker]

Malaysia boleh lah. How are their govt getting the vendors to enforce? Check the myKad of every young adult that seems to be born after 2005?

 

[mahjongking]

born 2004 can buy for born 2006........stupidity is really in the DNA

 

[syed putra]

They probably got tge statistics showing drastic drop in lung cancer cases.
The malay farmers in kelantan were biggest tobCco growers. Now they plant ketum and ganja.

 

[syed putra]

But this will be approved soon.

Ministry to start registering cannabidiol products in 2023
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry aims to register some cannabidiol (CBD) products in 2023.

Its minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, said the framework for the CBD product registration will be obtained this year and the National Pharmaceutical Regulation Agency (NPRA) will assess the proposals.

“I foresee that we will be able to begin the registration of several CBD products next year, but what’s important isn’t the product itself. We need to see the veracity of the product data from safety aspects and effectiveness against certain diseases.

“Education and scientific exposure (on this matter) would need to be provided to medical officers in Malaysia,” he said after the launch of a report titled How Do Malaysians Really Feel About Drugs? by The Centre, a think tank co-founded by Khairy that conducted a survey on 500 adults nationwide in April.

He also stressed that the use of CBD would be on prescription only and would never encompass recreational use.

“When we bring CBD in, it cannot be sold over the counter, it must be through prescriptions and what’s important is that when the product is available, doctors know how to provide prescriptions.”

Khairy said the matter would take some time as the ministry was being cautious and was viewing international practices and scientific data on the use of CBD products.

He said the ministry would begin with assessing CBD product registrations, which is open to all, followed by clinical tests that encompass human trials conducted by Malaysian researchers