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.

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

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