Firstly I’m so sorry it’s an NST link - their news portal is infested with annoying ads that affects readability.
Secondly, I wish our journalists did the work to provide more context. Why is this an issue? What was the objection??
It is just a move to gain popular votes from the people that are benefits from it, the Tabacco industry, the thousands of vape SME.
Maybe the government or the Ministry of Health should consider to impose law that if you are a smoker and or vaping on nicotine, you are not entitle for free/subsidized health care for life. The implementation can be as simple as using existing infrastructure like MySejahtera to register your smoking habit, you show your ID and scan every time your purchase a pack or any amount of nicotine, it aggregates the data and show the projection of the probability of your life expectancy, the more transactions the more less likely the government gonna lay eyes on you.
You made your decision to smoke, right ?
This report should shine some light
Yeah, its confusing. What I understand after reading this is that this allows liquid nicotine in vape juice to be taxed just like tobacco. However, nicotine itself is still in the Poison Act.
thank you so much! if that’s the case, then i’m not sure what’s the exact phrasing/grounds for the objections from the ‘health ngos’… is it the ratio/volume? hmm…
Probably because the delisting is not follwed by any effort to make it a controlled substance at least? Just my guess.
