GEORGE TOWN, June 14 — The Penang state health department shut down seven premises, including a kindergarten, and issued 167 notices for various offences along with compounds worth RM43,600 in a public health operation Thursday. The operation was conducted …

THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has called on local government units (LGUs) to pass ordinances that tighten enforcement of national laws regulating tobacco, vapor, and vaporized nicotine products. In a new memorandum circular, …

… booked for violating the anti-smoking law (COTPA, 2003) after police found …

Smoking laws are no longer keeping up …

Even the French have admitted that smoking is not sexy anymore, with the country introducing sweeping new laws to ban the act in most outdoor areas. The injunction, which online commentators have jokingly suggested is tantamount to a ban on being French, …

The new smoking law contemplates banning tobacco in many … government is finalising the anti-smoking law and will soon send it … . The purpose of the new smoking law is to create more smoke …

KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 — Kuala Langat MP Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi has condemned the government’s approval of a federal manufacturing licence for US-based Ispire Technology Inc., calling it a reckless decision that puts industry interests ahead of public health. …

… of Spain’s new anti-smoking law has been virtually completed according …

GEORGE TOWN, May 21 — The Penang state government is considering a complete ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes (vapes) if the full enforcement of the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024 (Act 852) does not effectively curb their use …

Monaco has passed a bold new anti-tobacco law that bans single-use electronic cigarettes, raises the legal smoking age to 18, and expands no-smoking zones across the Principality. The reform, unanimously approved by the National Council on 15th May, is …