{"id":51988,"date":"2026-05-13T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51988"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:12:36","slug":"11-year-old-among-those-fined-for-vaping-during-hsa-operation-in-punggol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51988","title":{"rendered":"11-year-old among those fined for vaping during HSA operation in Punggol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HSA noted the stiffer penalties under the Tobacco and Vaporisers Control Act that came into force on May 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those found vaping can be fined up to S$10,000, while those found vaping etomidate can be fined up to S$20,000, or face up to 10 years imprisonment, or both.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Another five males aged 17 to 20 years old were caught for underage smoking<\/span>. They have been referred to the Health Promotion Board for cessation counselling,&#8221; said HSA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/11-year-old-vape-fined-punggol-hsa-enforcement-6117466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSA noted the stiffer penalties under the Tobacco and Vaporisers Control Act that came into force on May 1.\u00a0 Those found vaping can be fined&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--bnlwJI0K--\/c_crop,h_719,w_1279,x_1,y_120\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/05\/13\/6062181785681989469.jpg?itok=Ni0qh8wr","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6914,642,1148,8603,10375,3321,13401],"class_list":["post-51988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-11yearold","tag-among","tag-fined","tag-hsa","tag-operation","tag-punggol","tag-vaping","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}