A newly-formed anti-illicit trade watchdog in the Philippines asked sari-sari store owners and other retailers to report to authorities peddlers of counterfeit cigarettes, after a local court convicted two men […]Read More
A regional civil society group asked the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international treaty on tobacco control which will convene its member states in November 2023 to protect, instead of alienating […]Read More
A substantial transition of smokers from traditional cigarettes to reduced risk products (RRPs) such as vapes and heated tobacco will help ease the burden on the public health system, according […]Read More
Consumer advocacy groups revealed that illicit vapes can still be found in e-commerce sites in the Philippines in violation of Republic Act No. 11900, or the Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine […]Read More
The top executive of the leading heated tobacco company in the Philippines said Wednesday the passage of the landmark Vape Law in 2022 in a win for public health as […]Read More
The UK Royal College of Physicians’ public health charity group dismissed as myths the assumption that vaping is a gateway to smoking and that vapes are more harmful than cigarettes. […]Read More
Tobacco harm reduction advocates in the Asia-Pacific region lauded UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for taking a pro-science approach to end the smoking epidemic by providing 1 million adult smokers […]Read More
The World Health Organization’s contempt of tobacco harm reduction (THR) jeopardizes the chance of more than a billion smokers globally to switch to less harmful alternatives like heated tobacco and […]Read More
More than 75,000 Filipino adult smokers have quit smoking for heated tobacco product which has been scientifically validated as a much better alternative to smoking since IQOS was launched in […]Read More
International policy and public health experts expressed alarm over World Health Organization’s (WHO) controversial policy-making decisions that ignore science. Dr. Rafael Castillo, a renowned Filipino cardiologist said an article published […]Read More