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Dewan Rakyat also passed the Courts of Judicature (Amendment) Bill 2022 , the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Bill 2022 and the Employment Insurance System (Amendment) Bill 2022. - Bernama Photo

Recent illicit cigarette study shows that the incidence grew in the first half of this year to 58.4% in March 2022 before settling back to 57.7% in May 2021. 

Dr Noor Hisham. Photo: BERNAMA FILE PIX

The Control of Tobacco Product and Smoking Bill 2022 tabled by Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the second reading of the bill will be done in the current sitting.

The current Dewan Rakyat sitting has been scheduled for 12 days until Aug 4. - Bernama Photo

Malaysia recorded 400 deaths a week from smoking. (Smaller image: Khairy Jamaluddin)

Khairy said members of Parliament should not use the issue of illicit markets for cigarettes and vape as an excuse to not support the bill. Photo: BERNAMA

Dr Ho Choon Moy said smoking can cause early menopause, where a woman’s menstrual cycles end between the age of 45 and 55, by two or three years.

This photo illustration shows a customer smoking at a vape store in Manila on November 20, 2019. - Just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarette use, police were ordered on November 20 to begin arresting people caught vaping in public and to confiscate the devices. (Photo by DANTE DIOSINA JR / AFP)

Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii (right) chairs a meeting by the Dewan Rakyat special select committee on health, science and innovation in Parliament yesterday.(Source: Parlimen Malaysia)