‘We want smoking banned’


Mini football: Using plastic bottles and a ping pong ball, a medical student explains why smokers get breathless when playing sports.

IT is very sad that some parents are supportive of their children’s vaping habit when they should be going all out to discourage it.

Sharing how a man had gone to school to “scold a teacher” for confiscating his child’s ecigarette, or vape, Universiti Malaya (UM) Nicotine Addiction Research and Collaborating Group (NARCC) deputy coordinator Assoc Prof Dr Nur Amani@Natasha Ahmad Tajuddin said the father was angry as the device cost RM450.

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