Malaysia will introduce a new law to parliament in July that would ban all e-cigarettes and other tobacco products for those born after 2005, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said.

This means that Malaysians who turn 17 today, 18 next year (the current legal smoking age in Malaysia) or in their lifetime will not be able to legally buy tobacco, e-cigarettes, nor will future generations be allowed to buy cigarettes and other smoking products.

Jamaluddin said the bill is currently being finalized by the attorney general's office.

"I think it will be done in one to two weeks, and then I can take it to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health and Technology," he told the media after the launch of the national community health agency MyCHAMPION.

Earlier, in his speech, Carey said the introduction of new laws related to cigarettes is one of the Ministry of Health's (MOH) efforts to strengthen the campaign for Malaysians to quit smoking.

"We're going to introduce a new law so it's illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone born after 2005. But I think it's the first step in our generation to end smoking. It's the end game of a generation." He Say. "It's going to be a challenge indeed to enforce the law. There's nothing stopping these young people from asking adults to buy cigarettes for them."

The government previously announced during the 2022 Budget presentation that it planned to tax nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and vaping liquids, essentially legalizing vaping products that are currently in a regulatory grey area.

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