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Time to stub out flavoured cigarettes
Menthol, fruit and other novelty flavours are why young Singaporeans still experiment with smoking. A ban on these flavours might be effective, as Singapore nears its endgame in its fight against tobacco use.
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Young people are still picking up cigarettes, and it's largely because of the attractive flavours in which cigarettes are still sold.
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Yvette van der Eijk
Who knew that menthol, grape and lemon flavours could be so dangerous? Tempting flavours, however, are still luring young people into a potentially lethal habit - smoking cigarettes.
Singapore has done well to clamp down on smoking, ever since launching its national smoking prevention campaign, "Towards a Nation of Non-Smokers", over 30 years ago. At the time, Singapore's tobacco regulations were among the world's strictest.
