MANILA, Philippines— Instead of lowering the minimum age of access to sinful products, Senator Pia Cayetano said she is ready to file a bill further raising it between 21 and 25 years old.
“I’m prepared to file a bill increasing the age of access to those other sinful products to older age as well either 21, 23 or 25,” Cayetano said during Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate committee on trade on bills seeking to regulate vaporized nicotine products.
“I’m still deciding on that. That is what we should do, and not the lowering. That’s my position,” she added.
Cayetano made the remark when one of the resource persons, Joey Dulay, president of the Philippine E-Cigarette Industry As…
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