Malaysia: In late November, Parliament
passed the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill 2023, which creates a regulatory framework for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. The ban on the usage and sale of vaping and tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1st January 2007, proposed in the
first draft of the bill, has finally been dropped in the
passed bill. Therefore, the bill now envisages notification requirements for vaping and tobacco manufacturers and importers, advertising restrictions and labelling requirements. The precise methods of product notification, alongside the specific labelling requirements applicable, will need to be prescribed by the Ministry of Health in subsequent regulations. The bill, which is pending publication in the Official Gazette, has also dropped the provisions relating to devices, leaving them unregulated.