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Vape bill eases restrictions on flavors, online advertising

By Reiven Pascasio | Apr 05, 2022 6:06 PM

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.

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Bill provides younger people easier access to smoke-free alternatives

By Klaire Ting | Apr 05, 2022 5:21 PM

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).

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‘95% less harm?’: Without scientific consensus, legislators favor ‘reduced risk’ claims in e-cigs, HTPs

By Nica Rhiana Hanopol | Apr 05, 2022 5:06 PM

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.

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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).

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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).

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