Debated in Parliament on 2 Oct 2018.
Senior Parliamentary Secretary Amrin Amin, do you have an update?
Thank you, Speaker. Mr Louis Ng asked for the actual numbers of deaths per year attributable to tobacco use, anti-smoking and second-hand smoke. The number for 2016 is 2,278. [Please refer to "Effects of Prolonged Exposure to Second-hand Smoke", Official Report, 2 October 2018, Vol 94, Issue No 84, Oral Answers to Questions section.]
Order. End of Question Time. The Clerk will now proceed to read the Orders of the day.
[Pursuant to Standing Order No 22(3), provided that Members had not asked for questions standing in their names to be postponed to a later Sitting day or withdrawn, written answers to questions not reached by the end of Question Time are reproduced in the Appendix.]