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Category: Seeing through the Smoke

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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Pot calling the kettle black

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 26, 2021 5:33 PM

    Two branches of government don’t see eye to eye on the issue of foreign funding.

    Seeing through the smoke

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    Categories Seeing through the Smoke

    Unsay ipasabot alang sa kabataan kong ubsan ang gidid-an nga edad sa paggamit og e-cigarette

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 04, 2021 10:54 PM

    Sa Senate Bill 2239, gihatag ngadto sa mga retailer ang katungdanan sa pagpamatuod sa edad sa mopalitay, nga pwede pangitaan og valid ID card nga makita ang edad o petsa sa pagkatawo.

    vape, vape bill, vape use

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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Easy to start, hard to quit: former and current smokers share their stories

    By Klaire Ting  |  Sep 30, 2021 7:44 AM

    What attracts young people to smoking and how do they get hooked into it? How do they get out of it? VERA Files spoke to four current and former smokers to hear their stories on how addiction to smoking has changed their lives.

    smoking, vape bill, vaping

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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Three govt agencies put pressure on Congress to scrap bill on vapes, e-cigarettes

    By Klaire Ting  |  Sep 16, 2021 9:24 AM

    The Department of Health (DOH), Department of Education (DepEd) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) joined medical practitioners and youth leaders on Wednesday in asking Congress to reject the bill that seeks to lower the age of persons who can buy, use or sell vapes and electronic cigarettes.

    deped, DOH, e-cigarettes, FDA, smoking, vape, vaping

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    Categories Fact Check Filipino Seeing through the Smoke

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: No anya ti kaipapanan ti panangibaba ti edad dagiti mabalin nga agusar ti e-cigarette kadagiti ub-ubbing

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 07, 2021 1:19 PM

    Ti panangibaba iti edad dagiti tattao nga mabalin nga gumatang, aglako, wenno agusar iti vapes ken electronic cigarettes iti edad 18, ket mangited kadakuada iti gundaway tapno makaalada kadagiti produkto nga mabalin nga adda dakes nga epekto na iti salun-at ken mabalin nga agbunga iti panagabuso, kuna dagiti eksperto iti medisina ken salun-at.

    age restrictions, e-cigarettes, Ilokano, youth

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    Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC News Seeing through the Smoke

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: What lowering age restrictions on e-cigarette smoking means for the youth

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 07, 2021 10:50 AM

    Lowering the minimum age of persons who can buy, sell, or use vapes and electronic cigarettes to 18 years old means giving younger people access to products with adverse health effects and which could lead to substance abuse, medical and health experts say.

    age restrictions, e-cigarettes, youth

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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Vape use could lead to alcohol and illegal drug use ー health experts

    By Reiven Pascasio  |  Sep 01, 2021 7:09 PM

    Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) smoking or vaping could open the way for the youth and non-smokers to use alcohol and illegal drugs, warned health experts who described these novel products as anti-health.

    Health, smoking, vape, vaping

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    Categories Fact Check Filipino Seeing through the Smoke

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Mga alternatibo sa sigarilyo na walang usok ipinaliwanag

    By VERA Files  |  Aug 24, 2021 10:30 AM

    Halos 15 buwan matapos ipagbawal ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang “paggamit, pagbebenta o pagbili ng mga e-cigarette at mga produktong tabako” sa mga wala pang 21 taong gulang, inaprubahan ng House of Representatives ang isang panukalang batas na nagpapababa sa 18 ang minimum na edad ng mga makabibili ng heated tobacco products (HTPs) at electronic nicotine/non-nicotine delivery systems (ENDs/ENNDS).

    cigarettes, electronic nicotine delivery systems, electronic non-nicotine delivery systems, ENDSENNDS, heated tobacco products, HTP, tobacco

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    Categories FACT CHECK News Seeing through the Smoke

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Smoke-free alternatives to cigarettes explained

    By VERA Files  |  Aug 24, 2021 9:33 AM

    Barely 15 months after President Rodrigo Duterte banned “the use, sale or purchase of e-cigarettes and tobacco products” to persons below 21 years old, the House of Representatives approved a bill lowering to 18 the minimum age of persons who can buy heated tobacco products (HTPs) and electronic nicotine/non-nicotine delivery systems (ENDs/ENNDS).

    cigarettes, electronic nicotine delivery systems, electronic non-nicotine delivery systems, ENDSENNDS, heated tobacco products, HTP, tobacco

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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    An eight-year relationship with nicotine

    By Jay Sebastian  |  Jul 29, 2021 3:26 PM

    I distinctly remember my first time smoking a cigarette.

    electronic cigarette, nicotine, smoking, tobacco

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