Govt aims to cut smoking habit among adults from 19% to 15% by Dec 2025

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The Health Ministry aims to reduce the prevalence of smoking tobacco among adults to 15% by December next year, says Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.   The Health Minister said the current national prevalence of tobacco smoking among those aged 15 and above stood at 19%, according to the 2023 National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS).  Read more at https://shorturl.at/yIYT7  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The ambassadors that the Act aims to achieve, in terms of numbers?

00:07Oh, okay. Web is certainly a new product in the sense that it has never had any baseline.

00:19I know you're asking for numbers. It is going to be numbers, not generic terms, okay?

00:25And they have not provided me for now. But I'm quite sure when we look into this,

00:31we would have to determine over a certain KPIs that we want to achieve.

00:37For now, I said, they are not ready to give me any numbers as yet.

00:42But at least if prevalence on vape is for now, tobacco has reduced.

00:50From 21.3 to 19. That is the numbers as it is now. It has reduced.

00:58But there is a concomitant.

01:01At the same time, there is a sure shift from smoking to vaping.

01:07In other words, the use of vape has increased from 3.2 to 4.9.

01:15That was NHMS 2019, and now NHMS 2023, from 4.9 to 5.8%.

01:24Now, what your question is, moving forward, what will be our target?

01:29I think, without going into the specific detail, I think in the very near future,

01:37having got this, you know, after we have observed this implementation, and how is it going,

01:43I think we would be able to come up with a realistic, tangible, concrete KPI that we would want to set ourselves.

01:53I mean, in so far as MOH is concerned, and this division is concerned,

01:58I think we would be ready to announce to you what our KPIs would be.

02:05Having seen, after a while, implementasi ini dilakukan, and how the buy-in and what not,

02:12I am very sure that we would be able to, you know, spell out in a more concrete, measurable terms,

02:21by way of numbers and percentage, what we would like to see six months, one year, three years down the road.

02:27Targets for 2025, which is next year, no?

02:33I think we got to revisit, but this was done before.

02:42Dan kita, if I may say, bila kita menurunkan, when we determined this, that was when, 2011 ke?

02:512011.

02:522011, we made this target.

02:55Baseline.

02:56When it was 2011 as the baseline, we, in fact, 2025, our target was to reduce it below or equal to,

03:10equal or below 15%, this smoking.

03:14Smoking was relevant then, of course.

03:172016, 2017, baru datang vape, kan?

03:20So we have set the target to be 15%.

03:23For now, kita disebutkan tadi, it's 19%.

03:28So we still, you know, fall short of 4%.

03:33Itu apa yang kita dapat.

03:35Agree and we make, you know, we recognise and take note and take cognisance of the fact that we failed to achieve.

03:43Our target percentage prevalence was 15% way back in 2011.

03:48As we approach 2025, we are still struggling with 15%.

03:52Kalau 2025, we are able to reduce 4%, then we achieve the target of 15% in 2025.

04:00So, you know, Dr Noriana, Datuk Dati Hati, Dr, ya, Dr.

04:08Nohaliza.

04:10Nohaliza.

04:11Dr. Nohaliza.

04:13And the team, you know, is upon them and our penguatkuasa to achieve 15% by, shall I say, December 2025.

04:24Give ourselves to it.

04:26Katalah, December 2025, we have to reduce, insyaAllah, God willing, 4% to 15% is our target in smoking.

04:37Conventional.

04:38Conventional smoking. Cigarette, ya.

04:41Vaping?

04:42Vaping tidak relevan sebab kita baru ada baseline 5.9%, tapi kita akan dapat,

04:48mana Datuk Dati Hati kata, kita akan dapat tentukan apa-apa KPIs, apakah target would be.

04:55And that we got to spell out when we untuk dua tahun, lima tahun, atau tiga tahun down the road.

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