By Jermyn Chow

SMOKELESS tobacco products and innocuous-looking but potentially addictive bite-sized nicotine candies will be banned in Singapore, under stricter anti-smoking laws that were introduced in Parliament yesterday.

The health authorities also want to stop the sale of nicotine substitutes such as snus - a powdered form of tobacco - snuff and herbal cigarettes.

The objective is to put these products beyond the reach of experimenting youths so that they do not become addicted to nicotine.

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