In a forum, health experts warned that the vape and e-cigarette industry targeting Filipino youth puts the country at risk of an epidemic of e-cigarette or vape-associated lung injury .According to pulmonologist Dr. Maricar Limpin of Action on Smoking and Health, the latest Global Youth Tobacco Survey reported that approximately 1 out of every 7 Filipino youths aged 13-15 are now using vapes.
Riz Gonzalez, chairperson of the Philippine Pediatric Society Tobacco and Nicotine Control Advocacy Group. She then called on lawmakers to revisit the Republic Act No. 11900, or the Vaporized Nicotine and Non-nicotine Products Regulation Act, which transfers regulatory jurisdiction over vapes and other novel tobacco products from the Food and Drug Administration to the Department of Trade and Industry.