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Tag: cigarettes

  • Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Health expert counts on Marcos Jr. to protect youth from tobacco, vape harm

    By Nica Rhiana Hanopol  |  Jun 03, 2022 8:37 PM

    A health advocate called on president-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to prioritize health over his constituents’ interest on the issue of regulating novel tobacco products.  When asked what she expects […]

    cigarettes, marcos, tobacco, vape

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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 Health News Seeing through the Smoke

    Tobacco companies offer new tactics, same risks: health advocates

    By Klaire Ting  |  May 11, 2021 7:13 PM

    The tobacco industry is employing new ways to attract a new breed of smokers but its products are still harmful to health, say advocates.

    cigarettes, Health, tobacco, tobacco control

  • Categories Top Stories

    ‘Yosi’ by ‘tingi’: Lethal comes in little packages

    May 31, 2012 3:37 PM

    By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE, InterAksyon.com
    BUYING cigarettes per stick or “tingi” rather than by pack is preferred by many Filipinos. While smokers like to think that consuming cigarettes little by little means they are consuming less and are therefore not addicted, medical health experts caution “it is often a prelude to buying cigarettes in packs or consuming even more.”

    cigarettes, smoking, tobacco

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