{"id":237996,"date":"2019-11-20T21:35:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237996"},"modified":"2019-11-20T21:35:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:35:48","slug":"prrd-praised-for-banning-use-importation-of-vapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/20\/prrd-praised-for-banning-use-importation-of-vapes\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD praised for banning use, importation of vapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_237997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237997\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rizalina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237997\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rizalina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rizalina.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rizalina-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rizalina-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-CIG BAN IS PRO-HEALTH. Philippine Pediatric Society-Tobacco Control Advocacy Group chairperson Rizalina Raquel Gonzalez on Wednesday (Nov. 20, 2019) lauds President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s move to ban the use and importation of vaping devices in the country. The health department on Nov. 15 announced the first vape-related lung injury case in the country that involved a minor. (Contributed photo from Probe Media Foundation, Inc. via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A health practitioner who has been campaigning against the ill effects of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) on Wednesday lauded President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s order to prohibit \u201cthe use and importation\u201d of vaping devices or e-cigarettes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Philippine Pediatric Society-Tobacco Control Advocacy Group chairperson Rizalina Raquel Gonzalez thinks President Rodrigo Duterte is \u201calarmed over the electronic cigarette or vape-associated lung injury (EVALI) case and the increasing prevalence of use of e-cigs by minors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a smoker and feeling all the bad effects on him, knowing the path of e-cigs as a gateway to smoking, he wants to be pro-health ASAP (as soon as possible),\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gateway to smoking tobacco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health (DOH) has noted there are a million Filipino e-cigarette users, with the product easily gaining popularity as it was marketed as a safer alternative to smoking tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>However, using these so-called replacements, Gonzales said, may actually lead to wanting to smoke tobacco in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cE-cigarette use for non-smoking minors is four times at risk to try and engage in tobacco cigarette use. It is a proven gateway to smoking tobacco or they become dual users,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; A health practitioner who has been campaigning against the ill effects of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) on Wednesday lauded President &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":237997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christine-cudis","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237996","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=237996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238009,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237996\/revisions\/238009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}