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FDA director Ana Rivera justified their grant-seeking venture by revealing that the agency had little allocation in 2016, and so funding research was nearly impossible.

On the day he was taken to the emergency room of the Cainta Hospital due to hypertension, Jehoiakim Cabia, 28, was told that his smoking was a big factor in the episode.

Medical experts have warned against the harmful effects of vape products especially among the youth.

In separate forums organized by civil society organizations ImagineLaw and SinTax Coalition on Dec. 14 and 15, doctors and health advocates also called on President Rodrigo Duterte to be consistent with his stand against vaping by vetoing the bill when it reaches his desk for his signature.

Despite more than half a century’s worth of evidence detailing tobacco’s deadly health consequences, the tobacco industry still lures millions of people worldwide and remains deeply entrenched in society, thanks to a strong political lobbying and well-funded marketing to interfere with public health campaigns.

What’s the real score? Here's one take from our listening post.

Ano ang tunay na kwento? Pakinggan ang pausukang yosi vs vape.

Between tobacco tax and public health, the government's choice is clear — money.

Tensions ran high between the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) during the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The two government agencies did not see eye to eye on key issues involving novel tobacco products.

As one of the 10 co-heads of the Philippine delegation in the ongoing virtual Conference of the Parties 9 (COP9) of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in Geneva, Switzerland, Locsin described tobacco use as useful and beneficial because “taxes on a vice are called salutary.”

Civil society groups consider the position taken by the Philippine delegation at the COP9 as a betrayal.

Magkaiba ang pananaw ng dalawang sangay ng gobyerno sa usapin ng pagtanggap ng ayuda galing sa ibang bansa. Panoorin: