A legal study on regulating the sale of cigarettes by retailer on children with reference to the control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 / Nurfarahana Bahaman

Enforcing laws banning tobacco sales to minors is widely advocated as a way to reduce young people’s access to tobacco and tobacco use. Numerous researches have been done regarding social determinant factors of smoking among adolescents and yet lack of research have been done on impact of retail tob...

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Main Author:	Bahaman, Nurfarahana
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	K Law in general Comparative and uniform law Jurisprudence
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21632/1/TM_NURFARAHANA%20BAHAMAN%20LW%2017_5.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.216322018-09-26T03:07:36Z A legal study on regulating the sale of cigarettes by retailer on children with reference to the control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 / Nurfarahana Bahaman 2017 Bahaman, Nurfarahana K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence Enforcing laws banning tobacco sales to minors is widely advocated as a way to reduce young people’s access to tobacco and tobacco use. Numerous researches have been done regarding social determinant factors of smoking among adolescents and yet lack of research have been done on impact of retail tobacco access on smoking adolescents in Malaysia. This study aims to set up a specific mechanism to better regulate the sale of cigarettes by the retailers on children with reference to the Control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004. This is a qualitative study where two sources of data are collected. A face-to-face interview is held with a qualified representative from the Ministry of Health to probe in-depth into the procedures in place as well as enforcement of the law in Malaysia. Findings from this study is that the current legislation which is regulated under the Food Act 1983, is not adequate in enforcing provisions related to tobacco use especially on minors. A new independent act needs to be enacted to regulate the tobacco control on its own as a whole and retail tobacco permitting should be implemented to retailers in order to strictly reduce adolescents’ access to tobacco and tobacco product specifically cigarettes. 2017 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21632/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21632/1/TM_NURFARAHANA%20BAHAMAN%20LW%2017_5.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Law
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description	Enforcing laws banning tobacco sales to minors is widely advocated as a way to reduce young people’s access to tobacco and tobacco use. Numerous researches have been done regarding social determinant factors of smoking among adolescents and yet lack of research have been done on impact of retail tobacco access on smoking adolescents in Malaysia. This study aims to set up a specific mechanism to better regulate the sale of cigarettes by the retailers on children with reference to the Control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004. This is a qualitative study where two sources of data are collected. A face-to-face interview is held with a qualified representative from the Ministry of Health to probe in-depth into the procedures in place as well as enforcement of the law in Malaysia. Findings from this study is that the current legislation which is regulated under the Food Act 1983, is not adequate in enforcing provisions related to tobacco use especially on minors. A new independent act needs to be enacted to regulate the tobacco control on its own as a whole and retail tobacco permitting should be implemented to retailers in order to strictly reduce adolescents’ access to tobacco and tobacco product specifically cigarettes.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Bahaman, Nurfarahana
author_facet	Bahaman, Nurfarahana
author_sort	Bahaman, Nurfarahana
title	A legal study on regulating the sale of cigarettes by retailer on children with reference to the control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 / Nurfarahana Bahaman
title_short	A legal study on regulating the sale of cigarettes by retailer on children with reference to the control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 / Nurfarahana Bahaman
title_full	A legal study on regulating the sale of cigarettes by retailer on children with reference to the control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 / Nurfarahana Bahaman
title_fullStr	A legal study on regulating the sale of cigarettes by retailer on children with reference to the control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 / Nurfarahana Bahaman
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title_sort	legal study on regulating the sale of cigarettes by retailer on children with reference to the control of tobacco product regulations 2004 / nurfarahana bahaman
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A legal study on regulating the sale of cigarettes by retailer on children with reference to the control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004 / Nurfarahana Bahaman

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