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Tag: tobacco

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    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK Fact Sheet News Seeing through the Smoke

    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.

    DFA, dirty ashtray award, DOH, novel tobacco products, tobacco, Tobacco industry, WHO FCTC

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    Categories Editor's Pick News Seeing through the Smoke

    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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    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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    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

    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

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    Categories News

    By law, sin tax hike should also help tobacco farmers

    By Maria Feona Imperial, Jake Soriano, Video by Lucille Sodipe and Don Sodipe  |  Feb 04, 2019 4:36 PM

    The other beneficiary – tobacco farmers – is seldom mentioned.

    tobacco, tobacco excise taxes

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Ten years since smoking regulation law, farmers still stuck with tobacco

    By Maria Feona Imperial, Lucille Sodipe and Jake Soriano  |  Aug 12, 2018 9:48 PM

    CABUGAO, Ilocos Sur — Shirley Pichay, 38, is a wife and mother of two. But around here, she is known as a “cowboy.”

    Ilocos Sur, R.A. 9211, tobacco

  • Health Justice
    Categories News

    Policy against tobacco industry needs more push – health group

    By Arianne Christian Tapao  |  Sep 29, 2017 7:46 PM

    NGO HealthJustice Philippines says the government has yet to fully address tobacco industry interference.

    health policy, tobacco

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