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Date:
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Time:
10.00am – 11.30am (SGT) | 2.00pm – 3.30pm (NZT)
Synopsis:
New Zealand and Malaysia have recently proposed to end tobacco use for future generations by introducing a new law that progressively raises the smoking age by one year every year, effectively banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2005 in Malaysia and 2008 in New Zealand. This bold policy reform has attracted great interest among health policymakers and researchers as an experiment on whether smoking can be phased out for good.
Should this unique policy intervention be adopted in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia? This dialogue will explore the opportunities and challenges that will arise in New Zealand and Malaysia with the proposed introduction of the smoke-free generation law and discuss the lessons that we can draw for tobacco policymaking.
