Leading medical organizations in the Philippines consider e-cigarettes as potentially harmful and do not recommend them as smoking cessation aids. This position is consistent with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “quit or die” approach—that smokers only have two choices and there is nothing in between—and the global body’s opposition to tobacco harm reduction.Read More
Asia accounts for the majority of the world’s smokers and also for the most deaths related to the smoking epidemic which remains unabated. Asian smokers, bereft of options, are sprinting—into […]Read More
The Government’s discussion document on ‘Proposals For A Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan’ reveals there’s alarmingly little intention to elevate vaping as a much safer and cheaper alternative to smoking, […]Read More
A regional group of consumer advocates denounced what it called “philanthropic colonialism” perpetuated by well-funded foundations to mislead many countries in Asia and the Pacific into adopting restrictive policies against […]Read More
A neglected aspect of tobacco use in India is the alarming increase in urban women smokers despite the overall decline in consumption by the general population. While smoking risks are […]Read More
A Filipino congressman asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to recognize the rights of companies, including tobacco and infant formula manufacturers, to procure and provide vaccines for their employees and […]Read More
Dealing with tobacco-caused illnesses looks easy. After many decades of work focused on trying to do so, there are far more people smoking far more cigarettes today than there were […]Read More
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