Targets for Reducing Smoking Rate in Singapore

96 Ms Mariam Jaafar asked the Minister for Health (a) whether the Ministry has any target to bring down the smoking rate in Singapore in the (i) mid term of three years and (ii) long term of five and 10 years; and (b) if so, what are the steps being taken to achieve this reduction.

Mr Ong Ye Kung: This question will be answered by my reply to Dr Lim Wee Kiak and Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang for the next Sitting. [Please refer to "Number of Singaporeans Who Have Given Up Smoking in Past Two Years and Proposal to Consider Total Ban on Sale of Tobacco Products", Official Report, 11 January 2022, Vol 95, Issue 45, Oral Answers to Questions section.]