The Health Promotion Board (HPB) is reviewing the current minimum cigarette purchasing age, and might raise it from 18 to 21.
According to the TODAY newspaper, the HPB hopes this will reduce the number of smokers in Singapore to under 10 percent by 2020. The current 14.3 percent is already one of the lowest in the world.
Said HPB deputy director of substance abuse Vasuki Utravathy, Singapore will observe the situation in New York, which increased their minimum cigarette purchasing age just last week, to see if replicating the measure here will be feasible.
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