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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.