Advertised as a “healthier alternative” to cigarettes, the device is worsening the already serious problem of smoking in the Philippines, especially among young people – the 10 to 18 year olds.

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'Vaping has been around for 20 years at least,' Mr Asa, president of Ends Cigarette Smoking Thailand, told the podcast. 'We have hundreds of thousands of testimonials of people saying vaping is safer.

But since then, things have shifted. From 2016 to 2017 and again from 2018 to 2019, 20.1% of e-cigarette users stopped smoking, compared to just 16.5% of those who did not vape.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti ...

It can also impact fitness levels. “In this study, we looked at a group of young people with no apparent signs of lung damage. Among the people who had been vaping or smoking for at least two ...

"They do not have good vaping/smoking data so mostly rely on each person saying yes/no, or self-reporting years of use. This is very crude and without the dose-response assessment ...

No differences were observed in the likelihood of transition from smoking to vaping or vice versa, indicating that either pathway was equally as likely. Survey results were analysed from the three ...