In Singapore, a ten-year-old child has become the youngest recorded vape abuser — a single fact that reframes what authorities once treated as a public nuisance into something closer to a generational emergency. The substances now found inside these devices, including etomidate, an anaesthetic capable of rendering users unconscious in public spaces, have transformed a nicotine debate into a drug crisis. The city-state has responded with rare institutional force — caning, rehabilitation, fifty agencies, and a public hotline — yet its own health chief cautions that the adversary keeps reinventin
Singapore intensifies vaping crackdown as youngest user caught at age 10
Youth as young as 10 are becoming vape abusers; users experience seizures, confusion, and delirium from etomidate-laced products, with risks including traffic accidents and addiction.