Association: Disappointed with Cabinet’s decision over e-cigs

By LOH FOON FONG

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Green Lung Association is disappointed with the Cabinet for choosing to regulate e-cigarettes instead of banning them.

Its co-founder and president Ho Rhu Yann said that besides nicotine, e-cigarettes contained glycol, which when heated up would create the carcinogenic compound acrolein.

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