PETALING JAYA: You can be fined and even jailed for buying illicit cigarettes under new rules which took effect on Wednesday.
Amendments to the Control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 under the Food Act 1983 stipulate that it is not only illegal to sell cigarettes in packets that do not carry government health warnings and pictures, it is also illegal to buy them.
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