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                                <title><![CDATA[ Who is behind the RM50 million bribe offer to drop anti-smoking law? ]]></title>
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                                <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[ 'Vape carnival' shocks parent amid concerns over government's commitment to public health ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The glitzy affair is complete with scantily clad promoters and free giveaways. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Health pressure group shocked by Anwar's about-turn on vape tax revenue ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The prime minister had promised to set aside half of the tax revenue from vaping products for anti-smoking campaigns and other health-related matters. ]]></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[ Philip Morris develops zero-tobacco heat stick that may avoid regulations ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The company has developed a range of sticks that do not contain tobacco but a 'non-tobacco substrate' infused with nicotine, with flavours including tobacco, menthol with blueberry and peppermint. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Health minister sued by child rights, anti-tobacco groups for delisting liquid nicotine ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ They say Dr Zaliha Mustafa breached the Poisons Act as well as Malaysia's international commitments. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ US e-cigarette sales up 47% from 2020 to 2022 ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The hike was especially pronounced among sweet flavours favoured by young users of e-cigarettes, also called vapes. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Netflix, Amazon, Disney-backed group protests India's tobacco rules ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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