On 25th July, 2022, the Philippines’ “Vape Bill” was enacted, aiming to regulate the import, sale, manufacture, distribution, and use of e-cigarette and heated tobacco products. The bill is being welcomed by activists as a step in the right direction toward embracing harm reduction strategies.

The Philippines enacted a bill on the 25th of July in a step toward promoting vaping and heated tobacco products as effective harm reduction strategies. The bill importantly focuses on imposing age restrictions on nicotine products for those under 18 years of age, ensuring that current adult smokers have access to these less harmful alternatives to cigarettes while combatting youth usage.

Liza Katsiashvili, the community manager at the World Vapers’ Alliance, said in a priopćenje za javnost: “Dok je većina kreatora politika dezinformirana i bori se protiv vapinga, Filipini su slijedili pravi put i prihvatili vaping kao učinkovitu inovaciju za smanjenje štete kako bi spasili živote. Druge zemlje trebale bi slijediti ovaj primjer i podržati pametne politike vapinga kako bi osigurale bolje javno zdravlje za milijune potrošača diljem svijeta.”

Every year, smoking kills nearly 100,000 people in the Philippines. This progressive bill seeks to embrace vaping as a safer nicotine alternative to smoking, and in the process, should help the country cut down on smoking-related illnesses, diseases, and hopefully, death.

Anton Israel, founder of the Nicotine Consumption Union of the Philippines (NCUP), said: “Vaperi na Filipinima slave veliku pobjedu! Vjerujemo da je zakon o vapeu strategija zdravstvene zaštite koja potiče izbor potrošača i priliku pušačima da uživaju u sigurnijim alternativama zapaljivom duhanu. Odluka vlade da potiče vaping umjesto da ga obeshrabri donijet će ogromne koristi za javno zdravstvo zemlje.”

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