date:Feb 12, 2019
least 25 per cent bigger than existing ones.
In moving the Bill for a second reading, Senior Minister of State for Health Edwin Tong said that more needs to be done to reduce tobacco use here.
He noted that one in five men in Singapore smoke daily, and that the male smoking rate is higher than in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
More than 2,000 Singaporeans die prematurely from smoking-related diseases each year, he said.
Even though the smoking rate has be