21
November
2017
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23:40
Asia/Singapore

Singapore’s calibrated approach to e-cigarettes and raising legal age for smoking

Prof Teo Yik Ying, Dean-designate at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at NUS, opined that raising the minimum legal age for smoking progressively is a good start but there is no reason to stop there as one can imagine a Singapore with a “Millennium Effect”. He added that we have to ensure that products such as e-cigarettes should never be made available to non-smokers, and to never cease in our efforts to encourage and enable current smokers to quit the habit completely.