SINGAPORE – At a Meet-the-People Session in Tampines in 2025, a father came with his Primary 2 son who had been fined by the Health Sciences Authority for vaping.
The scene struck Joy Liew, 21, a law student from the Singapore Management University (SMU) who helped them file an appeal to waive the fine.
It prompted her to create an app to help youth quit vaping, which was one of the winning student projects showcased at the launch of Law Awareness Weeks @ CDC (LAW@CDC) 2026 on Oct 3 at Our Tampines Hub.
LAW@CDC is a nationwide effort started in 2015 to promote legal awareness in the community. Over the next month, the initiative will bring talks on issues like neighbour disputes; marriage and divorce, and scams to community centres and Residents’ Networks around Singapore.
Liew said she had previously thought vaping mainly affected older teenagers.
She said: “I was really shocked that vaping had even reached children at such a young age.”
She does not know the outcome of the boy’s case.
But with tougher laws on vaping, she felt it was important to steer young people away from this vice given its potential impact on their future.
Liew and fellow law student, Amber Tng, 21, computer science student Anson Koh, 23, and information systems student Lee Yi Terng, 24, created the app ClearAir for youth who had been caught vaping and want to quit.
They spoke to social workers and discovered support gaps.
Some youth may not have family members to hold them accountable during their rehabilitation.
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