The Senate and various health advocates have expressed alarm over the information that the country gained 9.5 million new ...

The Senate Committee on Ways and Means on Wednesday said illicit trade has been a major factor in the rise of smoking ...

The national government on Wednesday was asked to recalibrate its taxation of all standard tobacco products given the ...

Illicit cigarette trade pushed smoking prevalence in the Philippines from 14.6 percent in 2021 to 18.9 percent in 2023, based ...

THE GOVERNMENT should raise taxes on tobacco and vape products to cut their use by Filipinos, according to the Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Philippines. “The buying capacity of Filipinos has ...

Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday raised the alarm on the proliferation of illegal cigarettes and vape products on online ...

The Philippines has once again earned the ignominious “Dirty Ashtray Award” for the fifth time, a testament to its ongoing failure to effectively address the public health crisis caused by smoking and ...

The decline in the collection of excise taxes needs further study before a moratorium can be imposed, a senator said, as ...

Tobacco harm reduction experts warned that Vietnam's plan to ban the use of e-cigarettes would deprive smokers of better alternatives and encourage them ...

Bernardita Churchill, a Filipino historian, says it’s rare to see children this young smoking in the Philippines. Young people play a game of cards, using dried pasta in lieu of money.

THE chairman of the Senate blue-ribbon committee warned on Thursday that continuing the sorry state of miscoordination among government agencies will worsen the public-health problems caused by ...