announces that the Malaysian government plans to prohibit the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products to people born after 2005. This means that Malaysians who are 17 years old today would not be able to legally buy tobacco next year when they turn 18—the legal age for smoking in Malaysia—or ever in their lifetime.
“For too long, our health care system has been burdened with health care issues resulting from smoking. This allocation will enable smoking to be phased out in stages until one day in the future, Malaysia will be a smoke-free country,” he said. If Parliament approves this tobacco prohibition, the government would have less than a year to come up with a mechanism to make sure that cigarettes are not sold to 18-year-old adults in 2023. But if it’s going to be anything like the beginning of the smoking ban at eateries,. When a Ministry’s WhatsApp number was introduced for the public to report cases of smokers that violate the ban, the replies were non-existent and it didn’t seem like it was even worth it to report.
reportedly plans to ban the sale of tobacco to people born after 2008. The new law will also reduce the number of shops that can sell tobacco from 2024, and allow only smoked tobacco products containing very low levels of nicotine to be sold from 2025.
They just will get foreigners to buy it for them