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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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
Consumers groups asked the Philippine government to join four countries in rebuking the extremist stance of the World Health Organization on vaping that deprives millions of smokers better alternatives to […]Read More
New Zealand Ministry of Health’s latest stop-smoking guidelines are disappointing as they do not include the vape option for smoking cessation providers to discuss with Kiwis keen to quit cigarettes, […]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
Members of the Philippine House of Representatives raised concerns that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may have violated several laws when it accepted funds in support of tobacco control […]Read More
Science has shown that burning or the combustion process when smoking a cigarette is what produces harmful constituents that cause disease, not nicotine. Dr. Victor Joseph Yamat, Scientific Affairs Manager […]Read More
The Philippines’ House of Representatives on May 19, 2021 approved on second reading a proposed bill that recognizes tobacco harm reduction as a public health strategy by regulating the use […]Read More
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who abstained from smoking or substantially reduced their cigarette consumption by switching to heated tobacco products (HTPs) showed consistent improvements in respiratory symptoms, […]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