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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The PH gov’t stance on tobacco industry, novel products

By VERA Files | Nov 15, 2021 11:30 PM

Tensions ran high between the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) during the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The two government agencies did not see eye to eye on key issues involving novel tobacco products.

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DOH, DFA at loggerheads on tobacco issue in global health meet

By VERA Files | Nov 10, 2021 5:59 PM

As one of the 10 co-heads of the Philippine delegation in the ongoing virtual Conference of the Parties 9 (COP9) of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in Geneva, Switzerland, Locsin described tobacco use as useful and beneficial because “taxes on a vice are called salutary.”

COP9, DFA, DOH, tobacco

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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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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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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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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