HSA Charges Man for Alleged Importation of More Than 2,800 E-vaporisers and Related Components
The Health Sciences
Authority (HSA) has charged a 55-year-old man, Lai Mun Leong in court on 19 November
2025 for allegedly importing e-vaporisers and related components into
Singapore.
2
On 17 November 2025, officers
from the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) at Tuas Checkpoint found
2,830 e-vaporisers and related components in a Singapore-registered car that Lai
was driving. HSA was alerted and investigations are ongoing.
3 The case has been adjourned to 17
December 2025.
4 Under the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements
and Sale) Act, it is an offence to import, distribute, sell or offer for sale
e-vaporisers and their components. Any person convicted of an offence is liable
to a fine of up to $10,000, or imprisonment of up to six months or both for the
first offence, and a fine of up to $20,000, or imprisonment of up to 12 months
or both for the second or subsequent offence.
HEALTH
SCIENCES AUTHORITY
SINGAPORE
19
NOVEMBER 2025
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