DTI bans sale of 5 vape brands over alleged law violations

Alden M. Monzon - @inquirerdotnet 09/08/2024

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced on Saturday that it has removed five vape brands from stores due to alleged law violations. The brands under investigation are Shft, Dr. Freeze, Areogin, Don…

Vapes to contain graphic health warnings

Dexter Cabalza 04/26/2024

Starting next month, all electronic cigarettes and vapes sold in stores and online in the Philippines will have graphic health warnings (GHWs) on their packaging. This is to discourage Filipinos, especially young people, from using these harmful…

China to impose consumption tax on e-cigarettes starting Nov

Reuters 10/26/2022

SHANGHAI – China’s Ministry of Finance will impose a consumption tax on e-cigarettes sold in China from Nov. 1, according to a notice published on Tuesday. The taxation policy will further entrench China’s once-scattered e-cigarette industry into…

National No Smoking month: Cigarette alternatives just as harmful

Christina Eloisa Baclig 06/02/2022

MANILA, Philippines—Every June, Filipinos are being encouraged to stop smoking as the country observes the National No Smoking Month—which highlights the harmful effects of tobacco products. June was declared National No Smoking Month by Proclamation No. 183 signed…

Consumers threaten FDA with graft charges over e-cigs and heated tobacco rules

Inquirer.net 10/23/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) continues to face backlash from stakeholders who are now threatening to file graft charges before the Ombudsman following the regulatory agency’s admission of receiving funds from foreign vested…

Harm reduction

Peter Wallace - @inquirerdotnet 09/03/2020

  I’m going to come back to this topic (see my column “Smoking kills, vaping doesn’t” on July 11, 2019) because we need to save Filipino lives from all illnesses, not just COVID-19. Smoking kills, we know…

PRO-7: We achieved our goal on implementing vaping ban in region

Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The information dissemination of the police on the prohibition of the use of e-cigarettes or vapes in public places by confiscating the device was a success. This was how Police Brigadier General Valeriano De…

PRO-7 to strengthen campaign against vape use in public areas

Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/22/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) said that it will continue to strengthen the campaign against the use of e-cigarettes or vapes in public areas in the region.  On Friday morning, November 22,…

Negros Oriental cops to strictly implement vaping ban

Florence Baesa 11/21/2019

DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — The Negros Oriental Provincial Police (NOPPO) will strictly implement the banning of vaping in public places in the province of Negros Oriental. Police Colonel Julian Entoma, NOPPO director, in an ambush interview with…

4 e-cigarettes turned over to police, 1 other seized from minor in Talisay City

Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/20/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Four Vape or e-cigarette users in Talisay City have started turning over their e-cigarettes to police while one other was confiscated from a minor hours after President Rodrigo Duterte announced the banning of…

PRO-7 to coordinate with e-cigarette sellers for information drive on vape ban

Alven Marie A. Timtim 11/20/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The police in Central Visayas will be coordinating with all e-cigarette sellers for the information drive about the banning of the use of vape in public places. Following the order of President Rodrigo Duterte on…

DOH cites 1st PH case of vape-related injury

Jovic Yee - Inquirer.net 11/16/2019

A 16-year-old girl from Central Visayas is the country’s first known victim of lung injury caused by electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), or vaping, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the…

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