KLANG: New legislation to regulate electronic cigarettes will be tabled in Parliament at the end of the year or in next year’s sitting.
Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye said a special task force that he headed was drafting the bill as more input was needed from stakeholders.
“This task force was set up only last week and will be meeting soon to explore the best methods to regulate and control the use of vape, sisha and cigarettes.
“We know that 90 per cent of vape liquids are laced with nicotine, which is addictive.
“What we are seeing now is that vape users start off the habit as a trend, but the worry is that the (nicotine) addiction will soon drive them to switch to cigarettes,” he said after a mass rhythmic teeth brushing event at SK Sungai Binjai, here, today.
On June 27, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad had announced the setting up of a special task force to formulate methods to control the use of e-cigarettes.-Bernama