January 03, 2021
A sign in a convenience store at Bedok Interchange Food Centre showing the updated minimum age of 21 for people buying tobacco products.
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - What started as being a curious 16-year-old, wanting to be cool and fit in with friends quickly turned into a habit and today Chris is a full-blown, self-confessed smoking addict.
That is not his real name, and with reason: As of Friday (Jan 1), the full-time national serviceman, 20, became guilty of underage smoking.
The minimum legal age for buying and using tobacco products was raised from 20 to 21 on that day, after being upped from 18 to 19 in 2019 and then to 20 in 2020.
TIMB allays fears of price manipulation
Martin Kadzere
The Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB), an industry regulator, has allayed fears of price manipulation by merchants during the 2021 marketing season owing to the potential collapse of the auction system.
TIMB chief executive officer Dr Andrew Matibiri told The Sunday Mail Business that the auction system would be maintained this season despite expected low volumes of the free funded crop, as many farmers would likely be de-registered from contract schemes after some of the merchants failed to provide prescribed minimum funding.
The marketing board is currently validating the value of inputs and quantities given to farmers this season to ascertain if contractors complied with required minimum support levels.
The Straits Times
Time to do more to stub out smoking in Singapore?
The Jan 1 raising of the minimum age limit for smoking to 21 is the latest step to manage the harm of tobacco, following measures over the years to shrink the space you can take a puff in public. But some feel more needs to be done to weed out the habit.
A sign in a convenience store at Bedok Interchange Food Centre showing the updated minimum age of 21 for people buying tobacco products.ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
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