The Al Jazeera documentary shows not all shops bother checking customers' IDs, while some recommend flavours for beginners.

This follows the government's move to delist liquid nicotine as a poisonous substance and to refer the 'endgame' bill for further scrutiny.

The number of teenagers found to be vaping has increased from 9.8% in 2017 to 14.9% in 2022.

Officers from the Selangor health department sweep the airport, checking for those who flout Malaysia's smoking regulations.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the marketing and the illegal sales of vapes to children is 'completely unacceptable'.

Billed as the country's largest anti-smoking reforms in a decade, Australia will ban single-use disposable vapes, halt imports of non-prescription versions, and restrict how much nicotine e-cigarettes may contain.

Malaysia should emulate Australia, where nicotine vaping products are classified as presecription-only medicines.

They say the law itself will give them 'the green light' to vape if nicotine is delisted as a controlled substance under the Poisons Act.

They caution the government against prioritising revenue, and warn that the addictive substance can now be easily consumed by the youth.

Juul Labs Inc has agreed to pay the sum to resolve about 10,000 lawsuits targeting the e-cigarette maker as a major cause of a US youth-vaping epidemic, Bloomberg News reports.

Flavoured disposable vaping devices account for one-third of US e-cigarette sales, up from less than 2% three years ago, according to a review of retail sales data.

The Consumers Association of Penang says the taxes earned from tobacco products pale in comparison with the cost of treating chronic smoking-related diseases.