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                                <title><![CDATA[ Who is behind the RM50 million bribe offer to drop anti-smoking law? ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Dr Murallitharan Munisamy ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ It is no longer a matter of perception that there is a systemic and organised pattern of industry interference in the formulation of public health policy. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ New bombshell over revelation that tobacco lobby dangled RM50 million bribe to ex-minister to drop GEG ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The revelation comes two years after Putrajaya announced it was dropping the generational endgame provision which was opposed by big tobacco firms. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Teachers appeal to parents as schools grapple with increasingly deadly vape plague ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 01:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ It comes after a secondary school student hallucinating after inhaling vape fell from the school roof. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Vaping sees more youth treated for hallucinations, collapsed lungs ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 01:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Hospitals are reporting increasing number of patients with mental illnesses associated with vaping. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 'Today tobacco, tomorrow foreign govt?': Putrajaya urged to set up royal inquiry on who killed GEG bill ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 02:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Vocal Penang-based consumer group CAP says the public should be told the identity of MPs 'kowtowing' to lobbyists it says are like 'drug merchants'. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Relax Khairy, it's all in the game ]]></title>
                                <link>https://www.malaysianow.com/opinion/2023/11/17/relax-khairy-its-all-in-the-game</link>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[  Nehru Sathiamoorthy ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 02:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The former health minister does not seem to have taken kindly to the delay to his generational endgame bill. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Questions over fate of smoking endgame bill after govt delists nicotine ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ahmad Mustakim Zulkifli ]]></dc:creator><dc:creator><![CDATA[ Nur Hasliza Mohd Salleh ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 01:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ While the prime minister has assured that the bill will be tabled this year, health experts say this should precede the exemption of nicotine from the Poisons Act. ]]></description>
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