World No Tobacco Day, which fell on 31 May, encompasses not just cigarettes but the broader tobacco and nicotine industry, including vapes and e-cigarettes.
In Malaysia, smoking rates remain stubbornly high, cigarette taxes have been frozen for more than a decade now, and policymakers are still grappling with how to regulate newer nicotine products.
How coherent is Malaysia’s tobacco control strategy? Astro Awani’s Melisa Idris talks to Professor Murallitharan M, the managing director of the National Cancer Society Malaysia and chairperson of the Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control, and Muhammad Daniel Kittu, a senior researcher at the think tank, Social and Economic Research Initiative (Seri).
Produced by: Astro Awani
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