The Malaysian government has announced plans to ban the sales of cigarettes and tobacco products for all citizens born after 2005 in a bid to outlaw smoking.
Malaysia’s minister of health Khiary Jamaluddin said he is planning to table the tobacco and smoking control act in parliament soon with a view to passing the legislation later this year. He said this in the presence of officials at a world health organization meeting in Geneva.
According to him, the country would like to highlight the negative impact of tobacco on non-communicable diseases and if successful, will bring about a generational end game to smoking.
If passed, it would mean that anyone aged 17 in 2022 will never be able to buy tobacco in Malaysia in their lifetime.
New Zealand has also announced its plans to effectively ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2008 by lifting the smoking age each year from 2027 in a law expected to be enacted later in the year.
The sale of vaporizer liquids containing nicotine has been banned in Malaysia since 2015. In 2019, the country also considered a total ban on all new vape devices and products following global health studies highlighting fatalities linked to e-cigarettes and vaping.
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