Worldwide praise from tobacco harm reduction (THR) advocates and vapers continues for Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. Secretary Locsin told online delegates at COP9–a key international tobacco control […]Read More
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Top Filipino officials rallied in support of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. for promoting an “inclusive and participative” country position in the ongoing World Health Organization conference on addressing […]Read More
Citing the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary report, the British Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines urged the government to consider UK’s science-based approach in dealing with the smoking problem as the […]Read More
A major UN climate change conference may overshadow an equally important World Health Organization conference where decision-makers are likely to ignore scientific evidence, consigning millions of tobacco smokers to an […]Read More
A hundred public health specialists from around the world urged the country representatives to the conference on the global accord on tobacco control happening this November to espouse tobacco harm […]Read More
Farmers’ groups in the Philippines asked the government to give the agriculture sector an equal representation in the country’s delegation to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control […]Read More
Filipino consumer groups asked their Congress to look into a report by an American think tank about Bloomberg Philanthropies’ repeated meddling in the affairs of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) […]Read More
Investments in harm reduction or better alternatives to combustible cigarettes are expected to bring benefits to public health, according to a fund manager that focuses on long-term, high-quality investments in […]Read More
Smoking rates and tobacco-related diseases and deaths have progressively decreased in countries that have adopted tobacco harm reduction (THR), according to Karl Fagerstrom, president of Fagerstrom Consulting, a Swedish consultancy […]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