PHILIPPINES
President Rodrigo Duterte said the use and importation of e-cigarettes will soon be outlawed in the Philippines, and ordered authorities to arrest people caught using them.
Likening vaping to the use of cigarettes and tobacco., he also said, “This vaping, it contains nicotine and other chemicals that we do not know, It has not passed the FDA ... and at this time, I said ‘smoking is dangerous’ so vaping is also dangerous and I am banning it.”
Earlier this year, Duterte, who is a former smoker himself, said that cigarette users “should be exterminated.”