Excise tax on vape products difficult without proper law: Noor Hisham

Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the newly-announced 10 percent excise tax on all electronic and non-electronic smoking devices will be difficult to implement without the Tobacco Control Act which has yet to be tabled in Parliament.

He explained that vape liquids containing nicotine currently fall under the jurisdiction of the Poisons Act 1952.