Consider This: World No Tobacco Day (Part 2) | Malaysia’s Nicotine Dilemma

31st May marks World No Tobacco Day, which encompasses not just cigarettes but the broader tobacco and nicotine industry, including vapes and e-cigarettes. In Malaysia, smoking rates remain stubbornly high, cigarette taxes have been frozen for more than a decade now, and policymakers are still grappling with how to regulate newer nicotine products. How coherent is Malaysia’s tobacco control strategy? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Muhammad Daniel Kittu, Senior Researcher at the think tank, Social & Economic Research Initiative (SERI), where he specialises in health economics.