The latest Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) shows that 14.1 percent of youth aged 13 to 15 are current vape users. This is a jump from 11 percent in 2015. This modest increase is enough to worry some health advocates, intensifying calls for greater regulation of vaping products.
Quit For Good, a non-profit organisation promoting harm reduction in the Philippines, wants to see the FDA and WHO focus on helping adult smokers who deserve better alternatives to cigarettes. It lauded the United States' intensified campaign on preventing the youth from consuming nicotine products but said, "balanced policy will protect the youth and help adult smokers at the same time".
"I call on the Philippine delegation, and all delegations, to the next FCTC COP, to consider our plight". Here we publish a powerful plea from a vaper in the Philippines to the delegates who will be meeting at COP10 in Panama next month.
House Committee on Human Rights Chairman Manila 6th district Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr. has called on the government to increase its efforts in discouraging the youth from taking up smoking and vaping.
LONDON, October 25, 2023-(BUSINESS WIRE)-A new research study titled, Integrating harm reduction into tobacco control reveals a significant opportunity: adopting tobacco harm reduction (THR) strategies could save 1.2 million lives in Pakistan.
The Johor state government, with the state ruler’s backing, urges Putrajaya to drop “electronic device” and “smoking device” from the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill. Ex-MB Hasni Mohammad says e-cigarette devices should be regulated by MITI.
International commerce flowing across the border between the United States and Mexico is a shared responsibility between our two nations and an important area of focus for our collective long-term prosperity. As such, news of President Joe Biden’s plans to finalize a ban on menthol cigarettes is a source of great concern.
Onn Abu Bakar (PH-Batu Pahat) asks when the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill will be tabled for second reading. “The data MOH presented is shocking. We must press the emergency button and we cannot look back.”
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