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A lawmaker wants to regulate the manufacture, distribution, sale, importation and use of electronic cigarettes, which has become popular among smokers trying to overcome their tobacco addiction. Parañaque City Rep. Eric Olivarez,author of House Bill 5093 or the proposed E-Cigarettes or Vape Regulation Act of 2014, said e-cigarettes cannot be considered completely risk-free because they are still a source of nicotine, a known addictive substance. “Although it may be safer than a cigarette or tobacco, because it does not produce real smoke as a very dangerous by-product of the latter, the long-term effects of vaping e-cigarettes are still not guaranteed to be completely safe,” he said in the bill’s explanatory note. Under Olivarez’s proposal, manufacturers of e-cigarettes will be required to put health warnings on the packaging of their products. The Department of Health (DOH) will prescribe the standard for the size and content for these labels. Apart from this, the DOH may also impose restrictions and regulations on the flavor, composition, advertising and promotion of e-cigarettes. The sale of e-cigarettes to minors will be prohibited regardless of who will use or consume the product. Even if e-cigarettes are marketed as a safer alternative to regular cigarettes, Olivarez said they can still induce substance dependence because they function as a nicotine delivery device. “E-cigarette delivers toxic chemicals and carcinogens into the lungs. It also has the potential of making bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics,” he said. E-cigarettes contain a liquid solution that produces an aerosol when heated by an atomizer Read More …

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popular 1,700 flee attacks, killings, arson MP Hotel five stuns Wangs; Cagayan, JP repulse foes Mercado shows proof Mrs. Binay owns Batangas property Gilas selection group formed Flying out? MMDA clears route to airport SPD officer faces rape, trafficking raps Sueselbeck pleads: Send me home or I’ll lose my job in Germany Pork barrel still alive in 2015 budget videos Assistant Ombudsman explains why Revilla’s wealth must be seized Binay allies ‘gatecrash’ Senate probe Binay daughter’s Instagram post: ‘Our place in Batangas’ Audio recording of Binay interview‎ on Batangas property bared 100 buried alive in Sri Lanka tea region mudslide–minister Philippine airport terminals. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines–The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) suspended the implementation of its order integrating airport terminal fee in the cost of international airline tickets. In compliance with the order by the Pasay Court, “the MIAA is hereby suspending its implementation,” it said in a statement. The integration, based on Memorandum Circular No. 8, should have started November 1. But several overseas Filipino groups asked the court Tuesday to stop the order. Migrant Filipino workers are exempted from paying terminal fees and the integration order would nullify this benefit. The Pasay Court issued Friday a 20-day restraining order against the MIAA memorandum circular. It has set a November 17 hearing to determine if the restraining order will be made permanent. RELATED STORY Pasay court stops planned integration of terminal fee into airfare OFW groups seek TRO on integration of NAIA terminal fee into airfare Tags: Read More …

An Army official who has been ordered relieved from his post has been given a new position in the AFP Medical Center — only to be relieved again. Armed Forces chief Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang has ordered the relief of Lt. Col. Florencio Ritchie Capulong from the center’s Technical Working Group, which supervises the implementation of certain projects. Capulong had been earlier sacked as disbursement officer of the AFP Medical Center for his involvement in an alleged anomalous procurement of medicines and medical supplies worth P80 million, but he was designated secretariat head of the TWG by acting AFP Medical Center chief Col. Benedicto Jovellanos. Jovellanos gave Capulong his new assignment on October 15, or a day after Capulong was sacked as disbursement officer. Asked if Jovellanos was aware that Capulong had been ordered relieved when he gave him the TWG assignment, AFP public affairs office chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc said: “He knows but I don’t know the rationale [behind it).” “I don’t know the reason why he was given a job. I can only assume that it is due to his expertise that might be lost because he will be doing nothing, so that we can utilize his expertise for certain tasks,” he said. Cabunoc said the sacking of Capulong and several others aims to provide transparency to an ongoing internal investigation on the alleged anomalous procurement. Also sacked pending the investigation by the AFP’s Office of Ethical Standards and Public Accountability were AFP Medical Center chief Brig. Read More …

A national policy prohibiting agreements that discourage business competition and other unfair trade practices is closer to becoming a law after hurdling the House Appropriations committee. The committee chaired by Davao City Rep. Isidro Ungab on Tuesday approved the substitute bill to 11 proposals, one of which was House Bill 1133 authored by Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. The National Competition Policy Bill, one of the Aquino administration’s priority legislative measures, is expected to pass in the run-up to the ASEAN economic integration next year, said Davao Del Norte Rep. Antonio Rafael del Rosario, one of the authors of the bills consolidated by the House panel. “We are hoping that by the end of this year, we will be able to spprove it, or hopefully between one month before our Christmas break,” Del Rosario said. The ASEAN integration will pave the way for the creation of an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), a single market spanning the 10-nation bloc that includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The integration is envisioned to cause a freer flow of goods, services, investment and skilled labor in Southeast Asia with the removal of existing trade barriers. Among the unfair trade practices prohibited by the bill are the restriction of competition as to price or other terms of trade; the setting, limiting, or controlling of production, markets, technical development, or investment; dividing or sharing the market, whether by volume of sales or purchases, territory, type of goods or services, buyers or Read More …