Smoking causes 400 deaths a week
PUTRAJAYA - Malaysia records 400 deaths a week due to smoking, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar revealed.
He said the consumption of tobacco was one of the main factors that triggered cancer, which is the leading disease that caused deaths in hospitals.
"Tobacco products also causes an addiction towards the nicotine, which is one of the content of cigarettes," he said through his TikTok page on Tuesday.
Khairy said nicotine took less than 10 seconds to reach the brain as soon as the person inhale the cigarette smokes.
"Which is why it is difficult for smokers to quit, at the same time it creates many who smoke for the rest of their lives and face multiple diseases," he said.
He said cigarettes could not only cause multiple chronic diseases to the smoker, but they could bring dangers to those around them as well.
"Remember there is no safe tobacco quantity for us. It is very dangerous.
"Stay away from smoking.
“Play your role in producing a generation free of smoking," he said in a video recording for his campaign activities to ban cigarettes, e-cigarettes (vape) and all smoking tools to those born after 2007 which would be presented next week.
