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FCTC’s measures do not align with the unique political, cultural and economic circumstances of Southeast Asian countries, complicating implementation

The Philippines addressed the smoking epidemic with the passage of the Vape law, recognizing tobacco harm reduction approach as among the identified pillars of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global tobacco control treaty but the agency is inflexible with its restrictive stance, a group said.

/PRNewswire/ -- Quit for Good, a public health advocacy group based in the Philippines, has joined other scientific organizations and associations across the...

Quit for Good, a public health advocacy group based in the Philippines, has joined other scientific organizations and associations across the world in calling for the adoption of tobacco harm reduction (THR) to save smokers and help improve people’s ...

Quit For Good, a non-profit organization promoting harm reduction in the Philippines, said strategies that provide smokers with less harmful alternatives to cigarettes are far more likely to reduce smoking than the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recommendations to prohibit them while cigarettes remain widely available.