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Aware of the health risks of cigarette smoking, the tobacco industry has designed over the years “less harmful” alternatives for smokers: low and tar nicotine devices, filtered cigarettes, smokeless tobacco.

Lawyers, professors, and journalists filed a motion for partial reconsideration anew before the Supreme Court (SC), praying that the magistrates strike down six provisions of the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 for “being repugnant to the Constitution and the Philippines’ obligations under International Law.”

At 9:05 in the evening of February 25, 1986, as the multitude of Filipinos in revolt closed in on Malacañang, the Marcoses scurried out of the palace with their 22 crates of loot on board four helicopters from the United States embassy. It was believed that the deposed dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos had taken everyone dear to him and everything of immense value into exile. He did not. Marcos abandoned his own mother.

Why did FDA director-general Eric Domingo quit?

Why did Domingo resign? Watch the full report here.

Even as the country grappled with new strains of Covid-19 last year, the Duterte government’s drug war continued to claim more lives at the average rate of three deaths every two days.

Duterte, who expressed his anti-vaping stance strongly in 2019, has the option to sign it into law, allow it to lapse into law after 30 days, or veto the entire or parts of the proposed law.