Sari-sari stores, or the neighborhood mom-and-pop stores, saw Filipinos feeling the brunt of the increasing prices of cigarettes and alcohol in 2024.
This is the...
Doctors, medical professionals, and health advocates gather at the Lung Center of the Philippines Auditorium in Quezon City to call on 2025 election candidates...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian called for a stronger conviction rate in cases involving illicit product arrests and seizures, urging enhanced coordination among government agencies
"We need...
Consumers are advocating for greater access to accurate information on less harmful alternatives to traditional cigarettes such as e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches.
This...
Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Romeo Lumagui Jr. leads the 2025 nationwide destruction activities of illicit cigarettes and other goods across 12 designated...
A PHILIPPINE Navy ship has reportedly confiscated some P30 million worth of smuggled cigarettes off Digos City in Davao del Sur.
The seizure was made...
The Philippine Navy intercepted illegal cigarettes worth a total of P17.89 million earlier this week off the coast of the Pangutaran Islands in Sulu.
According...
THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) has confiscated more than 10,700 reams of cigarettes worth P2.5 million reportedly abandoned by its importer at the Port of...
Tokyo recently hosted the IQOS Together X Sensorium, a gathering designed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of IQOS and push forward a bold agenda:...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) assessed P8 billion in tax liability from four large-scale manufacturers of illicit cigarettes in Clark Freeport, Pampanga, which...
Ditching combustible cigarettes in favor of heated tobacco products (HTPs) may help prevent plaque buildup in arteries, according to a new study.
The study, presented...
Fair trade advocates called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to sign the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act into law after it was ratified by the...
More than P2 trillion worth of smuggled goods, including counterfeit products, general merchandise, agriculture items, cigarettes and other tobacco products swamp the Philippines each...
