GEORGE TOWN, Oct 31 – Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya said that the Ministry of Health (MOH) was planning to formulate new laws related to tobacco, electronic cigarettes or vape, and shisha. He said the law on the matter was not strong at the moment because it was regulated under the Food Act 1983. According to him in terms of health, inhaling vape was as dangerous as smoking cigarettes or shisha, and smoking shisha for an hour was equivalent to smoking 150 cigarettes.
“Vape also has its dangers. Cigarettes have 87 substances that can cause cancer…vape has ‘propelyn glycol’ in the liquid, which when burned using the battery, will heat up. This can also cause cancer. Smoking vape and cigarettes are both dangerous,” Dr Hilmi told reporters here on Friday.
Dr Hilmi said the Health Ministry was in discussions with the relevant parties on the measures to control smoking these subtances to ensure that the decision was fair to all parties. On allegations that there was porcine DNA in vaccines and that it can have an adverse effect on health, he once again stressed that there was none of the substance in vaccines produced under MOH.
