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Tobacco industry supports plan to ban disposable vapes

By Delon Porcalla | April 19, 2024 - 12:00am

The tobacco industry has expressed its willingness to support a proposal of the Department of Finance to ban disposable vapes,...

Business

WHO sounds the alarm on 'harmful' e-cigarettes

July 27, 2021 - 9:30pm

"Nicotine is highly addictive. Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) are harmful, and must be better regulated," said...

World

Ex-DOH chiefs, groups hit moves to ease control policies on tobacco

By Christian Deiparine | May 30, 2021 - 4:44pm

"Let us be clear: in safeguarding Filipinos' health, tobacco companies are neither allies nor friends," the joint statement...

Headlines

Long past deadline to change crops, farmers still stuck with tobacco

By Jake Soriano | August 14, 2018 - 4:57pm

Since 2016, tobacco-producing cities and towns have received more than a billion pesos each in excise tax shares to improve...

Headlines

DOF orders tighter crackdown vs fake cigarettes

By Mary Grace Padin | June 14, 2018 - 12:00am

The Department of Finance has ordered the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs to strengthen the crackdown on cigarette counterfeiters, including the entry of unlicensed cigarette-making machines...

Business

Tobacco industry shifting focus to export market

By Louise Maureen Simeon | June 11, 2018 - 12:00am

The local tobacco industry is putting focus on the export market as domestic consumption of cigarettes continues to decline amid government’s smoking ban and tax reform program.

Business