In the Philippines, e-cigarettes still don't seem to be welcome! After one request for a temporary ban on vaping products in May by an anti-smoking group, it is now the country's Department of Health (DOH) which declares that e-cigarettes are "three times more harmful than smoking".
"E-CIGARETTE EXPOSES TO LEVELS OF NICOTINE WHICH CAUSES ADDICTION"
It is not easy to impose e-cigarettes in a country where the president is really hunting down products that can lead to dependence, even going so far as to attack the users themselves.
« E-cigarettes are three times more harmful than smoking", That's in any case what the Department of Health (DOH) recently declared in the center of Visayas, at the launch of Smoking Ban Drive"
Ligaya Moneva, a DOH-7 information officer took the opportunity to say that young people saw vaping as an art when it was harmful and exposed the user to toxic levels of nicotine that could lead to addiction.
In her speech, Ligaya Moneva added that e-cigarettes have posed a lot of safety concerns in and outside the country for the past few days.
A SELLER DEMONSTATES THE SPEECH OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Andrew Sharpe, owner of the shop Vamp Vape at Gaisano Country Mall in Cebu does not understand the speech of the health department. During an interview he declares that in e-liquids we only find propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin also used for asthma inhalers. According to him, there is no risk in vaporizing these products.
« The final ingredient i.e. nicotine is pharmaceutical grade, and all e-liquid manufacturers make their product available in different strengths of nicotine.“, Added Sharpe.
« Many vapers use very little or no nicotine. Out of 100 customers, we have 70% who do not put nicotine in their e-cigarettes. What scares people is that, on a superficial level, vaping is like smoking.. "
The owner of the Sharpe store also states that if chemicals are found in e-cigarette vapor they are in small concentrations, much less than in tobacco smoke. He concludes by declaring: “ You breathe and eat chemicals every day, but most do not affect you.«
