ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS AGAINST CROSS-BORDER VAPE SUPPLY CHAINS

NOTICE PAPER NO. 414

NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

FOR THE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON 3 FEBUARY 2026

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Mr Jackson Lam

MP for Nee Soon GRC

Question No. 1195

To ask the Coordinating Minister for Social Policies and Minister for Health (a) how the Ministry works with overseas platforms and foreign jurisdictions to disrupt cross-border vape supply chains; and (b) how effective have current blocking and takedown measures been over the past two years.

Answer

1         Mr Speaker, the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) and Singapore Police Force (SPF) engage in information sharing with their foreign counterparts. With the help of intelligence sharing, in 2025, joint operations with Health Sciences Authority (HSA) and ICA detected 59 large-scale smuggling cases, seizing around 230,000 e-vaporisers and related products.

2         HSA works with e-commerce, social media and messaging platforms to remove online listings of e-vaporisers. HSA also collaborates with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Online Criminal Harms Act Office under SPF to block e-vaporiser websites targeting locals. Over 10,000 online advertisements, including those found on messaging platforms, were removed in 2024 and 2025.