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Local government units are regulating the sale and use of e-cigarettes and other novel tobacco products, but some have liberal rules that allow persons as young as 18 years old to buy the products.

In the final year of the Duterte administration, Congress approved a bill that defies the chief executive’s anti-tobacco smoking and anti-vaping position.

Several provisions in the proposed Vaporized Nicotine and Non-nicotine Products Regulation Act or the vape bill, ratified by Congress on Jan. 26, have been contested by medical experts and health advocates, questioning the need for a new regulation on electronic nicotine and non-nicotine devices (ENDS/ENNDS) and heated tobacco products (HTPs).

Timeline of events before the passage of the new vape regulation.

The proposed Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Production Regulation Act removes the two-flavor limit and allows online selling and advertising of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and heated tobacco products (HTPs), prompting health advocates to say that these provisions would entice younger people to try these and get them hooked on what can become a lifetime addiction.

Disregarding the government’s tobacco control program, Congress has ratified a bill that allows younger people to buy and use electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and heated tobacco products (HTPs).

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.

Nearly 17 years after the Philippines became a party to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), efforts to comply with some of the remaining major commitments are met with even more intensified resistance from the legislature.

In the middle of a deadly health crisis, the tobacco industry scored a win in the country, sticking to a tried and tested playbook to protect its interests.

Iti panagdardaras nga maipasa ti vaping bill,  bumaliktad ti 18th Congress nga awan nga pulos panangdayaw  na ti tradisyon ti lehislatura wenno kortesiya iti agmaymaysa nga kanayon nga kumonkontra nga kaduada iti Kongreso. “ Traditionally, mabalinmi  iti agsaludsod iti sponsor no madama ti report iti bicam…Ti bicameral report ket nabasa kalpasan ti alas nueve idi

Sa klaro kaayong tinguha nga mapaspasan ang pagpasar sa vaping bills, ang 18th Congress nibaliktad sa iyang legislative nga tradisyon o pagtahod sa ilang bugtong kauban nga kanunay nagsupak.

Sa pagmamadaling ipasá ang panukala sa vape, binaliktad ng ika-18 Kongreso ang sarili nito nang walang paggalang sa lehislatibong tradisyon o sa nag-iisang kasamahang mariing tumututol.