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Speaker: Ben Chester Cheong 19 Aug 2025
The extent of Singapore’s vaping crisis has come into sharp focus in recent months. Between January 2024 and March 2025, over 17,900 individuals were caught for possession, while $41 million worth of devices were seized – more than five times the total value of confiscations from 2019 to 2023. Mr Ben Chester Cheong, Associate Academic Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, NUS Faculty of Law, remarks that vaping has evolved from a tobacco substitute into a sophisticated drug delivery system, a reality that calls for stronger consequences within Singapore’s established legal pathways.
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Speaker: Speaker: Dr Mathew Mathews | 27 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Prof Teo Yik Ying | 19 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Prof Hsu Li Yang | 18 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Bjorn Low | 14 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Ben Chester Cheong | 8 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Assoc Prof Zhang Weina and Mr Yannis Yuan | 6 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Daniel Chan | 6 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Asst Prof Daniel Rabetti | 3 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Asst Prof Nur Hani Zainal | 28 October 2025