PETALING JAYA: One in five people who died of Covid-19 in Malaysia was a smoker, says Datuk Dr Noor Hisham AbdullahThe Health director-general said this was based on the research of 86 of the victims who died of the disease, where 17 or 19.8% of them were smokers.
He was addressing the threat of smoking in conjunction with the World No-Tobacco Day that is observed on May 31 all around the world. Dr Noor Hisham said that tobacco results in the death of more than eight million people around the world every year, with seven million caused by direct use while 1.2 million cases are because of exposure to second-hand smoke.
He said that during the movement control order , the ministry took action on 118 individuals who sold cigarettes on e-commerce websites, as this was against the Control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 and the Poisons Act 1952.
What about 86 out of 17?
Meaning we should smoke ? DGHisham
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