[CONSOLIDATED] Singapore's Vaping Crisis. CNB, HSA monitoring situation

[herzberg]

Offer rewards like cash or csc vouchers for bunknifing ppl la. Like provide vids of vapers or tiktok/insta of them vaping. Then the problem will solve itself in no time

 

[LoneTraveller]

It'd just serve to drive them further underground, and they won't be able to "monitor" anymore.

Now they still have time to send undercovers to openly mingle around and perhaps get intel on their sources without people being overly wary.

Anyway, it is so rampant, tough luck trying to catch them all (users).

Just impose the mandatory death sentence on those caught with vape and all the users will stop dead in their tracks.....

 

[Nuclear Boy]

Just impose the mandatory death sentence on those caught with vape and all the users will stop dead in their tracks.....

Just look at recreational narcotic use... Even with mandatory death sentence for traffickers, somehow it still trickles in to this date, drug users continue to be caught and sentenced. If it truly worked, then the problem would've been eradicated early on.

Rather, It is up to them (enforcement) to get to the source, or sniff out all of them at our borders and waters.

 

[skytan13]

Drive underground means underfground lor...

public harm still scared of this....still let them stay above ground meh...

 

[Laneige]

Just look at recreational narcotic use... Even with mandatory death sentence for traffickers, somehow it still trickles in to this date, drug users continue to be caught and sentenced. If it truly worked, then the problem would've been eradicated early on.

Rather, It is up to them (enforcement) to get to the source, or sniff out all of them at our borders and waters.

Maybe those 高知识分子
They feel authorities won’t find them or last to think they do it?

 

[Nuclear Boy]

Maybe those 高知识分子
They feel authorities won’t find them or last to think they do it?

Or even someone inside the establishment...
(Disclaimer: I am not claiming anything concrete here, just pure speculation)

 

[hotamp]

This type must nip at the supply side .... parliament must enact really harsh punishments till supplier find it not worth to take the risks to sell, then vaping will stop.....best is reward baotou kia to reveal who is supplying

 

[lifeafter41]

The smoker population in poly quite significant wor, nowadays still got vape this kind of thing I'm sure such spotcheck wouldn't turn out nothing..

CNB and SPF should collaborate with MOE to display how “ROTAN” is conducted in prison to all schools, including ITE, poly and the uni.

 

[skytan13]

Just look at recreational narcotic use... Even with mandatory death sentence for traffickers, somehow it still trickles in to this date, drug users continue to be caught and sentenced. If it truly worked, then the problem would've been eradicated early on.

Rather, It is up to them (enforcement) to get to the source, or sniff out all of them at our borders and waters.

the problem can never be eradicated as the overseas source can never be stopped, the lure of money.
Just that with the current framework of laws and punishment, the drug situation in SG is like that. manageable.

So as long as the Vaping is not escalated to narcotics the "power" of enforcement is pretty limited...

HSA at most is contraband cig lor...and those minor minor thing.

just let it be caught vaping = something or lesser like cannabis or ketamine consumption

 

[86technie]

Sch, bus stop, bubbletea shop, 7 eleven..
These are hotspots sure can catch.

 

[starry_starry_night]

Sch, bus stop, bubbletea shop, 7 eleven..
These are hotspots sure can catch.

How about those honda civic volkswagen scricrro and bmw car club gathering too?

 

[LoneTraveller]

Just look at recreational narcotic use... Even with mandatory death sentence for traffickers, somehow it still trickles in to this date, drug users continue to be caught and sentenced. If it truly worked, then the problem would've been eradicated early on.

Rather, It is up to them (enforcement) to get to the source, or sniff out all of them at our borders and waters.

Trickles in. That's the key word. For vape, now it seems like it's very wide spread with the users having no fear of consequences.

If the mandatory death sentence is imposed, the parents will kpkb their kids to stop vaping and those users in fear of their lives will stop. Eventually it will become like a trickle of users left and that's what we want as it shows that control have been established over vaping unlike now.

 

[JivBunny]

Police and Court cannot handle the large amount of arrests?

Prisons not big enough to hold them in?

 

[Akky85]

doing this will go down a slippery slope
why stop at sch or tertiary institute?
why not extend to other sectors?
why not search in gahment building?
all the military bases leh?
why not search any commerical building?
go seach residential ?

once you start, where you gonna stop?

If you are starting already, why are u thinking of stopping?

 

[JonWeak]

I noticed many YPs breathe damn loud. Sometimes queueing to buy food and can hear their breathing. And these are skinny dudes not buibui leh

 

[LoneTraveller]

I noticed many YPs breathe damn loud. Sometimes queueing to buy food and can hear their breathing. And these are skinny dudes not buibui leh

Maybe their lungs spoilt by vaping lor....

 

[laulankia24]

they will say vape is healthier than smoking as proven by so many australian and european doctors and universities

https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/nd...witch to vaping,95% less harmful than smoking.

 

[HumJiBeng]

The smoker population in poly quite significant wor, nowadays still got vape this kind of thing I'm sure such spotcheck wouldn't turn out nothing..

I rather they vape than smoke. But if can, ban all

 

[laulankia24]

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/feb/most-smokers-wrongly-believe-vaping-least-harmful-smoking

 

[Shion]

Jail for man who agreed to commit theft at warehouse containing vape-related items worth over $6m​

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...e-containing-vape-related-items-worth-over-6m

SINGAPORE – A man who was offered $20,000 to break into a warehouse unit containing confiscated vaping-related items worth over $6.5 million and commit theft was given a jail sentence on July 8.

Court documents stated that Lim Zhi Wei was offered the sum of money by one Chua Wee Ming, 34, to climb into the unit containing more than 540,000 vaping-related items that the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) had seized earlier.

Lim had gone to the warehouse with a friend, Elvin Suriaganandhan, 23, whom he had roped in for the task, at around 3.30pm on March 26, 2024, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Nicole Teo.

He was conducting surveillance at the property before HSA officers stopped the pair.

Lim, 40, who was the second person to be dealt with in court this week over the plan to steal the items, was sentenced to two years, one month and six weeks’ jail, and a fine of $2,400 on July 8.

The Singaporean had pleaded guilty to one count of performing an act that could obstruct the course of justice.

He also admitted to multiple other unrelated charges including drug consumption, criminal breach of trust and allowing his bank account to receive $10,000 from a victim of cheating.

The first person to be dealt with this week, Chee Wai Yuen, 36, was sentenced to one year, one month and six weeks’ jail on July 7. The cases involving Chua and Elvin are still pending.

Without revealing details, DPP Teo told the court that Chua had earlier imported vaping-related items into Singapore before the HSA seized them.

HSA then stored the goods in the warehouse as they could be used as evidence in offences involving them. Information about the property’s location has been redacted from court documents.

The prosecutor added that Chua reached out to Lim on or around March 25, 2024, and enlisted the older man’s help to steal the items.

Court documents stated that Lim and Elvin went to the warehouse together at around 3.30pm the next day.

DPP Teo said: “(Lim’s) plan was to conduct surveillance to collect information for the execution of the theft that night. Together, they went to the 10th floor, where they saw that the unit...was occupied.

“They...went down to the 9th floor to conduct surveillance. There, they saw an HSA officer. They then went back to the 10th floor.”

HSA officers confronted and stopped them soon after.

In an unrelated case, Lim was in charge of sales at a motorcycle workshop between January and April 2019 when he collected nearly $12,000 in total from 14 customers.

He pocketed the money and used his ill-gotten gains to repay his debts to unlicensed moneylenders. He has since made $1,550 in restitution.

Separately, Lim went on messaging platform Telegram in December 2022 and accessed a chat group called “Fast Cash Bank Rental”.

He saw an advertisement offering cash for the “rental” of bank accounts and contacted an unknown person behind the post, who offered him $500 a month for such a service.

The DPP said: “The accused asked the unknown person if the account rented was going to be used for unlicensed moneylending.

“The unknown person guaranteed to the accused that it would not be used for that purpose, but rather, for online casino-related activities.”

Satisfied with the answer, Lim handed the person details linked to his bank account. More than $436,000, including $10,000 from a victim of cheating, flowed through the account in early 2023.

Lim later went to the warehouse to commit the offence involving the vaping-related items and was arrested on March 26, 2024 before he was charged in court two days later.

He was out on bail when Central Narcotics Bureau officers arrested him for suspected drug consumption on March 6, 2025. His urine sample was later found to contain traces of methamphetamine.

Lim’s bail was set at $30,000 on July 8, and he is expected to begin serving his sentence on July 25.