25.21% of respondents reported symptoms associated with depression and 29.55% reported anxiety symptoms. Compared to adolescents who had not used any tobacco products, users of e-cigarettes or CTPs...
Smoking is the principal cause of COPD. But despite significant falls in cigarette smoking over the past 50 years, it remains a leading cause of death,...
Over a period of four to eight months, 30% of dual users switched to cigarettes only. Between eight and 16 months, 47% of dual users switched...
Young people who use e-cigarettes had poorer quality of life but lower risks of some signs of ill health, such as high blood pressure, although these...
Over the years, the Philippine government in partnership with private organizations have been working together to reduce tobacco use through awareness and education programs.
Some 79% of the vaping patients were categorized as having high-caries risk, compared to just about 60% of the control group. The vaping patients were not...
Acute exposure of the skin to THS elevates biomarkers associated with the initiation of skin diseases, such as contact dermatitis and psoriasis.
Men between 20 and 65 years of age with no prior history of CVD but who use ENDS daily are more than twice (2.4 times) as...
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently donated 315,000 NRT patches to the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP). This is enough to provide 4,500 high-risk smokers...
Aside from killing 117,000 Filipinos every year due to cigarettes and second-hand smoke, tobacco-related healthcare costs took away 65.80 percent of the country’s gross domestic product...
