The government plans to outlaw smoking for the next generation by prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products to people born after 2005.

Speaking at the 150th session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) executive board meeting in Geneva yesterday, health minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the country hopes to pass legislation this year which would bring about a “generation endgame to smoking”. “This is by making it illegal for the sale of tobacco and other smoking products to anyone born after 2005,” he said.