Making sense of the debate on Singapore’s ban on e-cigarettes

Singapore adopts a harm restriction approach in its tobacco control, including limiting the places where one can smoke, taxation, advertising bans, and more recently, raising the minimum legal age for smoking and introducing standardised packaging of tobacco products. While these measures reduced smoking rates 50–60 years ago, the proportion of smokers has remained stagnant in recent years. “Perhaps the answer lies in harm reduction strategies, a well-accepted and established approach in public health,” said Professor Chia Kee Seng, Founding Dean. Harm reduction tools include nicotine patches, low-tar cigarettes, and more recently,Read more

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