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.
The tobacco industry is employing new ways to attract a new breed of smokers but its products are still harmful to health, say advocates.
The other beneficiary – tobacco farmers – is seldom mentioned.
CABUGAO, Ilocos Sur — Shirley Pichay, 38, is a wife and mother of two. But around here, she is known as a “cowboy."
NGO HealthJustice Philippines says the government has yet to fully address tobacco industry interference.
Second of two parts (See Part 1: Like Arroyo, Aquino gov’t releases billions to LGUs before elections) ALCALA, Pangasinan — At the end of the newly opened section of the Tarlac-Pangasinan La Union Expressway, the one that exits at Rosales town, is a huge monstrosity of a structure, appearing empty and abandoned. It is supposed
First of two parts THE Aquino government has distributed some P10 billion pesos to select local government units mostly in Northern Luzon on the eve of the 2016 elections, repeating a practice employed by the Arroyo administration which President Aquino has repeatedly called a corrupt government. The funds represent the LGUs’ share from excise taxes
By JAKE SORIANO DESPITE a drop in the number of smokers, the Philippines still needs to adopt “more drastic measures” to further reduce tobacco use, said an anti-smoking advocate and cancer survivor. Emer Rojas, who uses an electrolarynx and is described as a walking graphic health warning against smoking, said measures such as raising the
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.”