{"id":162200,"date":"2018-04-30T06:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T10:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=162200"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:28:06","slug":"anti-smoking-group-calls-for-ban-on-e-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/30\/anti-smoking-group-calls-for-ban-on-e-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-smoking group calls for ban on e-cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107280\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/e-cigarette-1301664_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107280\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/e-cigarette-1301664_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cDo we still have to wait for illnesses caused by e-cigarettes to increase as well as the number of those addicted to it before we impose a ban?\u201d Rojas said. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/e-cigarette-1301664_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/e-cigarette-1301664_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/e-cigarette-1301664_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/e-cigarette-1301664_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cDo we still have to wait for illnesses caused by e-cigarettes to increase as well as the number of those addicted to it before we impose a ban?\u201d Rojas said. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; An ant-smoking advocacy group on Monday called on the government to ban electronic cigarettes or e-cigs in the country, saying health experts have yet to determine the dangers on the long-time use of such gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a need to ban e-cigarettes even at the local level until there is sufficient evidence that will prove that they are safe for consumers,\u201d said New Vois Association of the Philippines (NVAP) president Emer Rojas in an interview with the media.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vilitra online <a href=\"https:\/\/medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/vilitra.html\">medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/vilitra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Rojas said that they are making the call while the safety of e-cigs is still being determined by health experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we still have to wait for illnesses caused by e-cigarettes to increase as well as the number of those addicted to it before we impose a ban?\u201d Rojas said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the nicotine content itself of e-cigs makes it addictive so its unregulated sale and use clearly put at risk the lives of millions of Filipinos.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort online <a href=\"https:\/\/medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/symbicort.html\">medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/symbicort.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He also cited World Health Organization has already reported that there is insufficient evidence of e-cigs are effective to stop people from quitting smoking.<\/p>\n<p>Rojas also expressed fear over the reported e-cig explosions across the globe, causing injuries to its users and people around them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy xenical online <a href=\"https:\/\/medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/xenical.html\">medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/xenical.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He said there have been 243 cases of e-cig explosions as of May 2017 based on the data of ASEAN Tobacco Watch,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may also happen to anybody with very serious physical harm effects. But why take that risk? Government, especially local governments must include e-cigarette bans in their smoke-free ordinances to protect the people from this emerging threat of addiction,\u201d Rojas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; An ant-smoking advocacy group on Monday called on the government to ban electronic cigarettes or e-cigs in the country, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":107280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49806,11625],"class_list":["post-162200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-anti-smoking-group","tag-e-cigarette","mauthors-leilani-junio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280187,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162200\/revisions\/280187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}