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(FACEBOOK / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “Countries around the world need to protect their regulatory agencies from such interference,” Prof. David Sweanor, advisory committee chair of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law and Policy in Canada said. Sweanor made the comment after two congressmen called for a congressional probe on the Philippines FDA’s acceptance of foreign funding from Bloomberg, which promotes an anti-vaping agenda, in a possible breach of the 1987 Constitution and several laws. It can be recalled that during a public hearing on October 8, 2020 for the draft...

December 19, 2020 Duncan Mlanjira – Nyasa Times 1 Comment Renowned global public health advocate, Clive Bates contends that unless the world was serious enough about making smoking obsolete the current either prevention, or cessation only approach and measures are bound to fail. Non-combustible cigarette smoking is the answer Combustible tobacco smoking affects non-smokers Bates: Bates, who is Director of Counterfactual Consulting Ltd, said this during the Virtual E-Cigarette Summit 2020 — an independent platform for scientists, policymakers, medical and public health professiona...