Philippine WHO representative admits that vape is safer than cigarettes

WHO has publicly opposed the use of vape products. In fact, in September last year, two leaked papers from the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) showed that the organization is working to regulate evaporable products in the same way as flammable counterparts.

At the same time, Dr. Ranti Fayokun, a national non-communicable disease control tobacco control scientist, a WHO representative, acknowledged the relative safety of the product at a hearing on vape regulations held in the Philippine House of Representatives.

On the other hand, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines announced a ban on the use and import of vape, and said that anyone who uses the product will be arrested.

Duterte was an old smoker who suffered health consequences due to his own habits, and he rightfully took a strict stance on cigarettes.

Unfortunately, he holds the same position on vape products, but he does not know that the device is an excellent tool for smoking cessation and harm reduction.

At the same time, at the aforementioned Philippine Congress hearing, addiction psychotherapist and lawyer Dr Andrew da Roza pointed out that the ban would be counterproductive. "They (WHO) say that if you are a country that cannot make regulations and cannot enforce them, you must ban them. For me, this is a contradiction. A country cannot be perfectly regulated, but it has to do it in the end It ’s forbidden because the black market will proliferate. This is an extremely important issue for children. If we ban things, if we do n’t regulate things, we will create a black market that does n’t care about children, old people, and no concern we."

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