The Malaysian government has announced the removal of liquid nicotine, used in electronic cigarettes and vapes, from the Poisons List of controlled substances. This decision effectively legalises e-cigarettes and vapes with nicotine without any regulations in place, and was done to enable taxation on e-liquids. So first, we talk about the pushback to this, and why activists are concerned. Then, we discuss how exactly we should be regulating these devices.

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Produced by: Sharmilla Ganesan, Lim Jih-Ming, Natasha Fusil

Presented by: Sharmilla Ganesan, Lee Chwi Lynn

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Categories:  Law/Activism,  health policy,  government

Tags:  vapes,  nicotine,  e-cigarette,