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Tag: smoking

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    Categories Editor's Pick News Seeing through the Smoke

    Vape bill exposes young ‘vulnerable’ consumers to health risks, endangers already weak enforcement

    By Klaire Ting and Reiven Pascasio  |  Jan 17, 2022 11:54 AM

    Duterte, who expressed his anti-vaping stance strongly in 2019, has the option to sign it into law, allow it to lapse into law after 30 days, or veto the entire or parts of the proposed law.

    DOH, smoking, vape bill, vape use

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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Dalan padung sa ‘zero tobacco’: mga hinabako nga gustong moundang nakakuhag suporta gikan sa DOH Quitline

    By Nica Rhiana Hanopol  |  Jan 07, 2022 2:09 PM

    Matod sa Mayo Clinic sa United States (US), ang pagpanabako og sigarilyo usa sa mga nagdala og risgo sa high blood pressure. Mga kemikal gikan sa tabako mahimong “makadaut sa walls sa ugat” nga mahimong “mopadako sa risgo sa sakit sa kasingkasing.”

    DOH, DOH quit line, smoking, smoking cessation, vaping

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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Ti Dalan Para iti ‘zero tobacco’: Dagiti agusar iti sigarilyo nga kayat nan ti agsardeng ket makaala iti extra nga suporta manipud iti DOH Quitline

    By Nica Rhiana Hanopol  |  Jan 05, 2022 3:41 PM

    Iti aldaw nga naipan idiay emergency room ti Cainta Hospital gapu iti hypertension wenno ‘high blood’,Jehoiakim Cabia, edad 28, ket nabagaan nga ti panagsigarilyo ket dakkel iti naitulong na isu nga napasamak daytoy kenkuana.

    DOH, DOH quit line, smoking, smoking cessation

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    Categories Health News Seeing through the Smoke

    Health experts, anti-tobacco advocates air last-minute appeal: Junk vape bill

    By Klaire Ting  |  Dec 15, 2021 10:48 PM

    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.

    smoking, vape bill

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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 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 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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    Categories News Seeing through the Smoke

    Vaping an emerging epidemic, says leading pulmonologist

    By Klaire Ting  |  Jul 21, 2021 9:30 AM

    The consumption of electronic cigarettes or vapes is an emerging epidemic, especially among the youth, according to a leading pulmonologist who says novel tobacco products are no less dangerous than traditional cigarettes.

    epidemic, smoking, tobacco, vape, vaping

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    Categories Health News Seeing through the Smoke

    Doctors urge smokers: Commit to quit, not to shift to e-cigarettes

    By Klaire Ting  |  May 31, 2021 10:22 PM

    Medical doctors on Monday renewed their call for a stop to the use of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products, which they say are not healthier alternatives to regular cigarettes, as the tobacco industry claims.

    e-cigarettes, smoking, vape, world no tobacco day

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