Dad on drug vape mission

DANGER: KNOWN AS ΚΡODS, THEY THREATEN TEENS' LIVES THROUGH SUBSTANCE ABUSE

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GRIEF. Singapore's Delfard Tay shows a photo with his late daughter Shermaine. Since losing his only daughter in a fall from their high-rise flat, he has sounded the alarm on drug-laced vapes that put teenagers' lives at risk.

Since losing his only daughter in a fall from their high-rise flat in Singapore, Delfard Tay has turned grief into purpose, sounding the alarm on drug-laced vapes that put teenagers' lives at risk.

Authorities in the southeast Asian island state have clamped down on e-cigarettes, introducing strict measures last month to combat a worrying rise in the use of so-called KPods - vapes spiked with synthetic drugs such as ketamine.

Tay said that his daughter, 19-year-old Shermaine, was struggling with substance abuse before her death last year.

"Initially she was vaping" nicotine substances, he said, but one day "she showed me this new product... you smoke and you get high".