PETALING JAYA: With more than 43,000 schoolchildren found to be smokers, the tax on cigarettes should be raised in Budget 2027 to stop more from picking up the habit, says Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) senior education officer NV Subbarow.
He said 43,019 secondary school students and 341 primary school pupils had been found smoking, adding that Malaysia already had five million smokers and 1.5 million vapers.
